Pavol Lisy wrote:
> On 5/11/17, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
>> Mahmood Naderan via Python-list wrote:
>>> between two lines there is a new empty line. In other word, the first
>>> line is the first row of excel file. The second line is empty ("\n") and
>>> the third line is the second row of the excel file.
>>>
>>> Any thought?
>>
>> In text mode Windows translates "\n" to b"\r\n" in the file. Python
>> allows you to override that:
>> So you need to specify newlines:
>>
>> with open(dest, "w", newline="") as outstream:
>> ...
>>
>
> But lineterminator parameter (
> https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/csv.html#csv.Dialect.lineterminator
> ) is by default \r\n on linux too!
>
> b = io.StringIO()
> w = csv.writer(b)
> w.writerows([["a", "b c"], ['a', 'b,c']])
> b.getvalue() # 'a,b c\r\na,"b,c"\r\n'
I don't have a Windows system to test, but doesn't that mean that on Windows
with open("tmp.csv", "w") as f:
csv.writer(f).writerows([["one"], ["two"]])
with open("tmp.csv", "rb") as f:
print(f.read())
would produce
b"one\r\r\ntwo\r\r\n"
? How is that avoided?
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