From: Alan G I. <ai...@am...> - 2011-10-17 20:24:02
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>> On 10/17/2011 10:09 AM, Paul Tremblay wrote: >>> A space is a legal identifier in a CSV field. My example >>> is CSV. If it were just space separated, then it would see >>> the string "Spring and Summer" as 3 different fields; CSV >>> reads them as one. > On 10/17/11 10:32 AM, Alan G Isaac wrote: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values On 10/17/2011 12:28 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote: > I'm not sure of your point. See > http://docs.python.org/library/csv.html This is really OT, but my point was simply that 1. CSV means *comma* separted values http://creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/CSV/CSV01.htm even space-separated value files are sometimes called CSV 2. Quoting can be used with either CSV or SSV Alan |