clarify the type of data returned
diff --git a/Doc/library/csv.rst b/Doc/library/csv.rst
index f19574b..b5994c1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/csv.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/csv.rst
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@
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.
A short usage example::