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When sniffing the dialect of a file created with the csv module with dialect=csv.excel_tab and one of the row contain a quote ("), the delimiter is set to ' ' instead of '\t'.

I had a look at this and have the following remarks.
1) the file csv_sniffing_excel_tab.py no longer works with python 3.3. It now produces the folowing traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "csv_sniffing_excel_tab.py", line 36, in <module>
 create_file()
 File "csv_sniffing_excel_tab.py", line 23, in create_file
 writer.writerows(test_data)
TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface
2) The problem seems to be in the _guess_quote_and_delimiter method. If you always call _guess_delimiter, the sniffer give the correct result.
3) As far as I understand the problem is the first regular expression:
(?P<delim>[^\w\n"\'])(?P<space> ?)(?P<quote>["\']).*?(?P=quote)(?P=delim)
Now if we have a line as the following
273:MVREGR1:ByEuPo:"Baryton ""Euphonium"" populaire"
The delim group will match the space, the space group will match nothing the quote group will match " the non-group pattern will match "Euphonium" followed by the quote group matching " again and the delim group matching the space.
And so we get the wrong delimiter.

I included a patch (against 2.7) that seems to make the test work.
The patch prohibits the delim group to match a space.