[Python-checkins] bpo-40013: Clarify documentation of restval in csv.DictReader (GH-19099)

[Juhana Jauhiainen]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4b3252cb764807fdb3a661b458d43e4af55cf4df
commit: 4b3252cb764807fdb3a661b458d43e4af55cf4df
branch: master
author: Juhana Jauhiainen <juhana.jauhiainen at gmail.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2020-03-24T22:41:42+05:30
summary:

bpo-40013: Clarify documentation of restval in csv.DictReader (GH-19099)

files:
M Doc/library/csv.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/csv.rst b/Doc/library/csv.rst
index 49e22fa73ed26..61d39828e0194 100644
--- a/Doc/library/csv.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/csv.rst
@@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ The :mod:`csv` module defines the following classes:
    If a row has more fields than fieldnames, the remaining data is put in a
    list and stored with the fieldname specified by *restkey* (which defaults
    to ``None``).  If a non-blank row has fewer fields than fieldnames, the
-   missing values are filled-in with ``None``.
+   missing values are filled-in with the value of *restval* (which defaults
+   to ``None``).
 
    All other optional or keyword arguments are passed to the underlying
    :class:`reader` instance.