I am trying to read a csv file generated by excel. Although I succeed in reading the file, the format that I get is not suitable for me.
I've done: >>> import csv >>> spamReader = csv.reader(open('C:\\abc.csv', 'r')) >>> print spamReader <_csv.reader object at 0x01022E70> >>> for row in spamReader: print row ['codigo;nombre;cantidad'] ['a;qwe;1'] ['b;asd;2'] ['c;zxc;3'] My questions are: 1- Why using "print spamReader" I cannot see the data? I expected to see a list of lists, a kind of a matrix, but I get nothing 2- Why are the rows in a single string? I expected a list of fields that, when text, would be delimited by " To tell the truth, the file generated by excel does not contain the strings delimited by ". Isn't it weird? 3- Is there anything I can do to have my data in a list of lists structure? would another kind of data suit better my needs? Thank you for your help Vicente Soler -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list