Re: [Docutils-users] Scientific article example

[Paul T. <pau...@gm...>]

On 10/17/11 4:23 PM, Alan G Isaac wrote:
>>> 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
>
>

No, Allen. From your own link: "For the record */there is currently no 
such thing as a standard CSV format/*." Since python recognizes spaces 
as a csv files, and so do OpenOffice and Word, it seems that spaces are 
an accepted delimeter for CSV. I don't know why you insist on being so 
pedantic about something, especially if it is off topic. It is pretty 
obvious that python can parse the code either way, so again, what is 
your point?