csv module and NULL data byte

Thu Mar 1 08:57:08 EST 2018

On 2018年03月01日, Tim Chase <python.list at tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 2018年02月28日 21:38, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> >     with open( fname, 'rt', encoding='iso-8859-1' ) as csvfile: 
>>>> 	Pardon? Has the CSV module changed in the last year or so?
>>>> 	Last time I read the documentation, it was recommended that
>> the file be opened in BINARY mode ("rb").
>> It recommends binary mode, but seems to largely work fine with
> text/ascii mode or even arbitrary iterables. I've not seen the
> rationale behind the binary recommendation, but in 10+ years of using
> the csv module, I've not found any issues in using text/ascii mode
> that were solved by switching to using binary mode.

Binary mode was recommended for Python 2, but not 3, where you
open in text mode but use newline=''.
-- 
Neil Cerutti