From 0468df3d33cd02ad693227a61995b78f35ab4384 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Skip Montanaro Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:52:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] clarify the type of data returned --- Doc/library/csv.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/csv.rst b/Doc/library/csv.rst index 8c4554abc88..80ddaad947f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/csv.rst +++ b/Doc/library/csv.rst @@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ The :mod:`csv` module defines the following functions: dialect. For full details about the dialect and formatting parameters, see section :ref:`csv-fmt-params`. - All data read are returned as strings. No automatic data type conversion is - performed. + Each row read from the csv file is returned as a list of strings. No + automatic data type conversion is performed. The parser is quite strict with respect to multi-line quoted fields. Previously, if a line ended within a quoted field without a terminating newline character, a