diff --git a/Lib/csv.py b/Lib/csv.py
index 5ae5a73..e0f47e8 100644
--- a/Lib/csv.py
+++ b/Lib/csv.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
             "unregister_dialect", "__version__", "DictReader", "DictWriter" ]
 
 class Dialect:
-    """Describe an Excel dialect.
+    """Describe a CSV dialect.
 
     This must be subclassed (see csv.excel).  Valid attributes are:
     delimiter, quotechar, escapechar, doublequote, skipinitialspace,
@@ -65,6 +65,16 @@
     delimiter = '\t'
 register_dialect("excel-tab", excel_tab)
 
+class unix_dialect(Dialect):
+    """Describe the usual properties of Unix-generated CSV files."""
+    delimiter = ','
+    quotechar = '"'
+    doublequote = True
+    skipinitialspace = False
+    lineterminator = '\n'
+    quoting = QUOTE_ALL
+register_dialect("unix", unix_dialect)
+
 
 class DictReader:
     def __init__(self, f, fieldnames=None, restkey=None, restval=None,