[Python-ideas] csv.DictReader could handle headers more intelligently.

Wed Jan 30 16:16:37 CET 2013

On Wednesday 30 Jan 2013, Jeff Jenkins wrote:
> I think this may have been lost somewhere in the last 90 messages, but
> adding a warning to DictReader in the docs seems like it solves almost the
> entire problem. 

Jeff, it breaks code that works now because duplicates aren't cared about.
Shane is putting code up for a NEW call that you can use if you're worried 
about how the current one works and consideration for this issue is being 
included in the derivation of a new library for the next (and therefore 
allowed to be incompatible) python library version.