[issue30157] csv.Sniffer.sniff() regex error

[Matthew Barnett]

Matthew Barnett added the comment:

There are 4 patterns. They try to determine the delimiter and quote by looking for matches. Each pattern supposedly covers one of 4 cases:

1. Delimiter, quote, value, quote, delimiter.

2. Start of line/text, quote, value, quote, delimiter.

3. Delimiter, quote, value, quote, end of line/text.

4. Start of line/text, quote, value, quote, end of line/text.

On that basis, case 3 looks wrong because the pattern for delimiter is:

    >[^\w\n"\']

instead of the expected:

    [^\w\n"\']

Looks like a bug to me.

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nosy: +mrabarnett

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