Is anyone happy with csv module?

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2007-12-12, je.s.te.r at hehxduhmp.org <je.s.te.r at hehxduhmp.org> wrote:
> John Machin <sjmachin at lexicon.net> wrote:
>> For that purpose, CSV files are the utter pox and then some.
>> Consider using xlrd and xlwt (nee pyexcelerator) to read
>> (resp. write) XLS files directly.
>
> FWIW, CSV is a much more generic format for spreadsheets than
> XLS. For example, I deal almost exclusively in CSV files for
> simialr situations as the OP because I also work with software
> that can't (or in some cases "can't easily") deal with XLS
> files.  CSV files can be read in by basically anything.

When I have a choice, I use simple tab-delimited text files.  The
usually irrelevent limitation is the inability to embed tabs or
newlines in fields. The relevant advantage is the simplicity.

-- 
Neil Cerutti
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