Fix for problem with Sniffer class. If your delimiter is whitespace and the
last field was empty it would strip the delimiter and incorrectly guess that
"" was the delimiter. Reported in c.l.py by Laurent Laporte. Will
backport.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_csv.py b/Lib/test/test_csv.py
index f1f183f..0ad77ef 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_csv.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_csv.py
@@ -836,7 +836,6 @@
'Tommy''s Place':'Blue Island':'IL':'12/28/02':'Blue Sunday/White Crow'
'Stonecutters Seafood and Chop House':'Lemont':'IL':'12/19/02':'Week Back'
"""
-
header = '''\
"venue","city","state","date","performers"
'''
@@ -852,6 +851,8 @@
47483648;43.0;170;abc;def
'''
+ sample5 = "aaa\tbbb\r\nAAA\t\r\nBBB\t\r\n"
+
def test_has_header(self):
sniffer = csv.Sniffer()
self.assertEqual(sniffer.has_header(self.sample1), False)
@@ -879,6 +880,8 @@
self.assertEqual(dialect.delimiter, "/")
dialect = sniffer.sniff(self.sample4)
self.assertEqual(dialect.delimiter, ";")
+ dialect = sniffer.sniff(self.sample5)
+ self.assertEqual(dialect.delimiter, "\t")
if not hasattr(sys, "gettotalrefcount"):
if test_support.verbose: print "*** skipping leakage tests ***"