Is anyone happy with csv module?

[J. Clifford Dyer]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:02:04AM -0600, je.s.te.r at hehxduhmp.org wrote regarding Re: Is anyone happy with csv module?:
> 
> J. Clifford Dyer <jcd at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> > But the software you are dealing with probably doesn't actually 
> > need spreadsheets.  It just needs digital ledgers.
> 
> I saw someone else in this thread note that they considered CSV to
> be a serialization method and not a file format, which I thought was a
> brilliant way of looking at things.
> 
> OTOH, from a practical perspective, most of the people I end up interacting
> with say "spreadsheet" to mean exactly what you're describing as a
> "ledger paper" ... sure they might want to do operations on those cells
> in the data, but it isn't key what actual format the data is presented
> to them in (XLS, CSV, tab delimited, etc).  Oddly enough though, they
> almost always say "excel spreadsheet" even though that's not what they
> need (rather, its just a side effect of them not realizing there actually
> *is* other software that handles these things)

I know, I know.  The last place I worked, we had timesheets that were excel spreadsheets, but you actually had to total up your own hours.  I added to my job description the role of teaching people how to make the spreadsheet do the work for you.

Cheers,
Cliff