Pavel Shpilev added the comment:
I know that CSV specification says empty field and empty string are the same,
however, I still believe there is practical use for unconventional processing
of such fields.
In our specific case we parse CSVs produced by Amazon Athena (based on Presto)
in which
R. David Murray added the comment:
QUOTE_ALL only makes sense as an output control parameter, IMO. It is an
output discipline but doesn't say anything about semantics. In csv format, an
empty field and a field containing the empty quoted string are completely
equivalent. I would be -1 on a
New submission from Pavel Shpilev :
It appears that in current implementation csv.QUOTE_ALL has no effect on csv.
reader(), it only affects csv.writer(). I know that csv is a poorly defined
format and all, but I think this might be useful to distinguish None and ''
values for the sources that
