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@dukebody dukebody commented Apr 3, 2016

  • closes Regex C Engine Warning #10208
  • tests added / passed -- only docs, not needed
  • passes git diff upstream/master | flake8 --diff
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this. Regular expressions are accepted and will force use of the python
parsing engine and will ignore quotes in the data."""
this. Separators longer than 1 character will be interpreted as regular
expressions, will force use of the python parsing engine and will ignore
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maybe show an example, as sep='\s+' DOES use the c-engine (its a bit of a special case), an example would be sep=\r\t`` or somesuch

@jreback jreback added Docs IO CSV read_csv, to_csv labels Apr 3, 2016
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jreback commented Apr 3, 2016

also update the docs in io.rst (with the same), though you can be

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dukebody commented Apr 3, 2016

Updated!

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jreback commented Apr 3, 2016

thanks!

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