Fix for problem with Sniffer class. If your delimiter is whitespace and the

last field was empty it would strip the delimiter and incorrectly guess that
"" was the delimiter.  Reported in c.l.py by Laurent Laporte.  Will
backport.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_csv.py b/Lib/test/test_csv.py
index f1f183f3fb..0ad77ef09c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_csv.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_csv.py
@@ -836,7 +836,6 @@ Stonecutters Seafood and Chop House, Lemont, IL, 12/19/02, Week Back
 'Tommy''s Place':'Blue Island':'IL':'12/28/02':'Blue Sunday/White Crow'
 'Stonecutters Seafood and Chop House':'Lemont':'IL':'12/19/02':'Week Back'
 """
-
     header = '''\
 "venue","city","state","date","performers"
 '''
@@ -852,6 +851,8 @@ Stonecutters Seafood and Chop House, Lemont, IL, 12/19/02, Week Back
 47483648;43.0;170;abc;def
 '''
 
+    sample5 = "aaa\tbbb\r\nAAA\t\r\nBBB\t\r\n"
+
     def test_has_header(self):
         sniffer = csv.Sniffer()
         self.assertEqual(sniffer.has_header(self.sample1), False)
@@ -879,6 +880,8 @@ Stonecutters Seafood and Chop House, Lemont, IL, 12/19/02, Week Back
         self.assertEqual(dialect.delimiter, "/")
         dialect = sniffer.sniff(self.sample4)
         self.assertEqual(dialect.delimiter, ";")
+        dialect = sniffer.sniff(self.sample5)
+        self.assertEqual(dialect.delimiter, "\t")
 
 if not hasattr(sys, "gettotalrefcount"):
     if test_support.verbose: print "*** skipping leakage tests ***"