On 9/4/2013 11:04 AM, Tim Chase wrote:
I've got some old 2.4 code (requires an external lib that hasn't been
upgraded) that needs to process a CSV file where some of the values
contain \r characters. It appears that in more recent versions (just
tested in 2.7; docs suggest this was changed in 2.
On 2013-09-04 16:31, MRAB wrote:
> You could try replacing the '\r' with another character that doesn't
> appear elsewhere and then change it back afterwards.
>
> MARKER = '\x01'
>
> def cr_to_marker(f):
> for line in f:
> yield line.replace('\r', MARKER)
>
> def marker_to_cr(item)
On 2013-09-04 10:20, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> > _csv.Error: newline inside string
>
> How are the lines actually terminated, with \r\n or with just \n? If
> it's just \n, what happens if you specify \n as the line terminator?
Unfortunately, the customer feed contains DOS newlines ("\r\n").
I'm
On 04/09/2013 16:04, Tim Chase wrote:
I've got some old 2.4 code (requires an external lib that hasn't been
upgraded) that needs to process a CSV file where some of the values
contain \r characters. It appears that in more recent versions (just
tested in 2.7; docs suggest this was changed in 2.5
> _csv.Error: newline inside string
How are the lines actually terminated, with \r\n or with just \n? If
it's just \n, what happens if you specify \n as the line terminator?
Skip
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I've got some old 2.4 code (requires an external lib that hasn't been
upgraded) that needs to process a CSV file where some of the values
contain \r characters. It appears that in more recent versions (just
tested in 2.7; docs suggest this was changed in 2.5), Python does the
Right Thing™ and just
