tobiah wrote: > Of course, fixing the csv file takes a little more work. It sounds like the > test lines given were just one of the fields, and there are > the quotes to worry about. > [snip] > > But then this fails if there are commas in the > data. I could split and join on '","' but then > that fails when 'x' is either the first or last field. > > Are there tools in the csv module that make this > easier?
There are no "tools". The main (whole?) purpose of the csv module is to intelligently handle the embedded comma and embedded quote problems on both input and output. May I suggest that you read the documentation? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
