Dean Elzinga added the comment:
Ohh! Thanks for the clarification. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
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Skip Montanaro added the comment:
The string name of the dialect is "excel-tab". Hyphens are not
valid characters in identifiers though, so the actual object
is named "excel_tab". When you call csv.get_dialect("excel-tab")
it instantiates the csv.excel_tab class and returns that:
>>> csv.list_
New submission from Dean Elzinga:
I was trying out 'csv module' and noticed that it wouldn't accept a
dialect of 'excel_tab' as documented.
Then I noticed that csv.list_dialects() gave 'excel-tab' instead of
'excel_tab' as documented.
I'm not sure which one it's supposed to be, but I guess when
