Source: python-backports.csv Section: python Priority: optional Maintainer: Stuart Prescott Build-Depends-Indep: python, python-setuptools, Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11~), dh-python, Standards-Version: 4.2.1 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/python-backports.csv.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/python-backports.csv Homepage: https://pypi.org/project/backports.csv/ Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: python-backports.csv Architecture: all Depends: python, ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends} Description: Backport of the Python 3 CSV module for Python 2 The API of the csv module in Python 2 is drastically different from the csv module in Python 3. This is due, for the most part, to the difference between str in Python 2 and Python 3. . The semantics of Python 3's version are more useful because they support unicode natively, while Python 2's csv does not.