David Smith <d...@cornell.edu> writes: >> 2- the "C" in "CSV" does not mean "comma" for Microsoft Excel; the ";" >> comes from my regional Spanish settings > > The C really does stand for comma. I've never seen MS spit out > semi-colon separated text on a CSV format.
That's because you're running MS Office in a US language environment. In almost all of Europe MS products use comma as the decimal separator, and semicolon for CSV field separation. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list