csv skipinitialspace no longer working

[RudolfoMunguia]

BPO	40951
Nosy	@akulakov

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closed_at = <Date 2021-09-21.15:14:18.409>
created_at = <Date 2020-06-11.22:28:38.089>
labels = ['type-bug', '3.7', 'build']
title = 'csv skipinitialspace no longer working'
updated_at = <Date 2021-09-21.15:14:18.409>
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[RudolfoMunguia]

This was non-obvious at first. Code had written 1 month ago making use of csv.reader to strip leading spaces is failing when I ran it today. My company had updated my installation of python from 3.6 to 3.7 a few weeks back. I have skipinitialspace=True set, but all output still contains leading spaces. I have even checked around several places on the internet where they have "example" code to demonstrate this function -> but all of their examples are now also broken (?)! and contain the leading spaces as well :: https://www.w3resource.com/python-exercises/csv/python-csv-exercise-6.php

[akulakov]

I cannot reproduce with 3.7.7, when run with the linked example, the output looks fine:

['country_id', 'country_name', 'region_id']
['AR', 'Argentina', '2']
['AU', 'Australia', '3']
['BE', 'Belgium', '1']
['BR', 'Brazil', '2']
['CA', 'Canada', '2']

I think this can be closed as not a bug unless more detail is provided.

[akulakov]

Closing; if anyone finds a way to reproduce please add a comment or open a new issue.