csv file how to modify the row
Alex Martelli
aleax at mail.comcast.net
Tue Dec 27 22:24:57 EST 2005
Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVETHIScyber.com.au> wrote:
> Why are you calling it a Comma Separated Values file when there are no
> commas separating values in it?
It's common usage -- the Python standard library's csv also lets you
parse files where the separator is not a comma -- you just need to have
an explicit 'delimiter' (the comma is just the default value for this);
indeed, class csv.excel_tab has an explicit delimiter set to '\t'.
Alex
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