Andrew McLean wrote: > John Machin wrote: > > A better workaround IMHO is to strip each *field* after it is received > > from the csv reader. In fact, it is very rare that leading or trailing > > space in CSV fields is of any significance at all. Multiple spaces > > ditto. Just do this all the time: > > > > row = [' '.join(x.split()) for x in row] > > The problem with removing the spaces after they are received from the > csv reader is if you want to use DictReader. I like to use DictReader, > without passing it the field list. The module then reads the field list > from the first line, and in this situation you don't get an opportunity > to strip the spaces from that.
You can fix that. The beauty of open source is that you can grab it (Windows: c:\python2?\lib\csv.py (typically)) and hack it about till it suits your needs. Go fer it! Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
