* separated values

[brueckd at tbye.com]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Skip Montanaro wrote:

> Lots of people need to read and write CSV files (I've never used Numeric and
> haven't used PIL in a few years, so there ;-).  The Python distribution has
> a long history of supporting standard protocols well (NNTP, SMTP, etc.)  CSV
> is really the same sort of thing.  It is the de facto standard interchange
> format for the database and spreadsheet communities.  The protocol just
> happens to be embedded in files.

Great points; I reverse my earlier stance! :)

-Dave