John Machin wrote: > 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? >
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