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Diffstat (limited to 'docutils/docutils/parsers/rst/directives/tables.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | docutils/docutils/parsers/rst/directives/tables.py | 19 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docutils/docutils/parsers/rst/directives/tables.py b/docutils/docutils/parsers/rst/directives/tables.py index 328554da1..446034828 100644 --- a/docutils/docutils/parsers/rst/directives/tables.py +++ b/docutils/docutils/parsers/rst/directives/tables.py @@ -234,12 +234,25 @@ class CSVTable(Table): super().__init__() class HeaderDialect(csv.Dialect): - - """CSV dialect used for the "header" option data. + """ + CSV dialect used for the "header" option data. Deprecated. Will be removed in Docutils 0.22. """ - + # The separate HeaderDialect was introduced in revision 2294 + # (2004-06-17) in the sandbox before the "csv-table" directive moved + # to the trunk in r2309. Discussion in docutils-devel around this time + # did not mention a rationale (part of the discussion was in private + # mail). + # This is in conflict with the documentation, which always said: + # "" + # and did not change in this aspect. + # + # Maybe it was intended to have similar escape rules for rST and CSV, + # however with the current implementation this means we need + # `\\` for rST markup and ``\\\\`` for a literal backslash + # in the "option" header but ``\`` and ``\\`` in the header-lines and + # table cells of the main CSV data. delimiter = ',' quotechar = '"' escapechar = '\\' |