slow loop?

[Peter Hansen]

maney at pobox.com wrote:
> 
> OTOH, if you want a Python implementation for basic CSV, here's what I
> did [...]
> 
> for l in someFile.xreadlines():
>     fields = csv.split(l)
>     ...

I haven't reviewed the code, but with the above line driving it, it 
doesn't seem likely it can handle any lines with embedded newlines,
which can easily occur in a CSV file (at least, those written by Excel
for one).

Might be great for some people though.  Nice and simple.

-Peter