From: Skip Montanaro Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:52:18 +0000 (+0000) Subject: clarify the type of data returned X-Git-Tag: v3.1a2~211 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0468df3d33cd02ad693227a61995b78f35ab4384;p=python clarify the type of data returned --- diff --git a/Doc/library/csv.rst b/Doc/library/csv.rst index 8c4554abc8..80ddaad947 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