From: Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 15:56:52 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Note change to get_dialect semantics in 2.5.  Will backport to 2.5.
X-Git-Tag: v2.6a1~1094
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d469ff1e6a2b42b7be9407f5b84509e05371b0ec;p=python

Note change to get_dialect semantics in 2.5.  Will backport to 2.5.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/csv.rst b/Doc/library/csv.rst
index 98fc6c906f..1be909bbea 100644
--- a/Doc/library/csv.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/csv.rst
@@ -127,6 +127,11 @@ The :mod:`csv` module defines the following functions:
    Return the dialect associated with *name*.  An :exc:`Error` is raised if *name*
    is not a registered dialect name.
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 2.5
+
+   This function now returns an immutable :class:`Dialect`.  Previously an
+   instance of the requested dialect was returned.  Users could modify the
+   underlying class, changing the behavior of active readers and writers.
 
 .. function:: list_dialects()