Fix misdescription in escapechar
State: closed

- [ ] closes #23717
- [ ] tests added / passed
- [ ] passes `git diff upstream/master -u -- "*.py" | flake8 --diff`


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name: Docs
name: IO CSV
description: read_csv, to_csv

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@gfyoung  Thanks for the review. I thought `quoting = 0` is the default for `pandas.read_csv`. Am I looking at the wrong location? https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/1ebfd8a9fda12cd68c3e068b777c7a0a2470dfaf/pandas/io/parsers.py#L577-L580

Any suggestion for the description of `escapechar`? My impression was the name `escapechar` itself is already a simple description. 
> Thanks for the review. I thought quoting = 0 is the default for pandas.read_csv. Am I looking at the wrong location?

@thoo : Ah, indeed, you are correct.  Then it should be left alone. 🙂 

> Any suggestion for the description of escapechar? My impression was the name escapechar itself is already a simple description.

How about "One-character string used to escape other characters"
@gfyoung  Done. 
lgtm. over to you @gfyoung 
Thanks @thoo !