[issue1225769] Proposal to implement comment rows in csv module

[Skip Montanaro]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> added the comment:

Amaury> Comment lines in csv data may be common in some areas, but they
    Amaury> are not part of any standard, and they are not the only possible
    Amaury> extension to csv files (for example: ignore empty lines, or a
    Amaury> terminal \ for line continuation...)

Or different peoples' notion of how to comment strings.  Precidely because
there is no standard way to comment out content in CSV files people are free
to dream up anything they want, including,
but not limited to:

    * C- or C++-style comments
    * MoinMoin-style comments, where "##" introduces a comment but a lone
      "#" introduces a meta command to the parser

Trying to accommodate the myriad varieties of way s people might decide to
comment out content would put an undue burden on the csv module's parser.

Skip

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