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Add a comment to the csv reader documentation that explains why the 

treatment of newlines changed in 2.5.  Pulled almost verbatim from a comment
by Andrew McNamara in <http://python.org/sf/1465014>.
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@ -70,6 +70,17 @@ Parameters'' for details of these parameters.
All data read are returned as strings. No automatic data type
conversion is performed.
\versionchanged[
If literal newlines are important within a field, users need to read their
file in a way that preserves the newlines. The behavior before 2.5 would
introduce spurious characters into quoted fields, with no way for the user
to control that behavior. The previous behavior caused considerable
problems, particularly on platforms that did not use the unix line ending
conventions, or with files that originated on those platforms - users were
finding mysterious newlines where they didn't expect them.
]{2.5}
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{writer}{csvfile\optional{,