Thanks for your replies. Greatly appreciated.
Norm
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On 2013-04-03 18:26, Norman Clerman wrote:
> Can anyone explain the presence of the characters "\xref\xbb\xbf"
> before the first field contents "Holdings" ?
(you mean "\xef", not "\xref")
This is a byte-order-mark (BOM), which you can read about at [1]. In
this case, it denotes the file as UTF-
On 04/04/2013 02:26, Norman Clerman wrote:
Hello,
I have the following python script (some of lines are wrapped):
#! /usr/bin/env python
import csv
def dict_test_1():
""" csv test program """
# Open the file Holdings_EXA.csv
HOLDING_FILE = 'Holdings_EXA.csv'
try:
Hello,
I have the following python script (some of lines are wrapped):
#! /usr/bin/env python
import csv
def dict_test_1():
""" csv test program """
# Open the file Holdings_EXA.csv
HOLDING_FILE = 'Holdings_EXA.csv'
try:
csv_file = open(HOLDING_FILE, 'rt')
except I
