_csv.Error: string with NUL bytes

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On May 3, 10:12 am, dus... at v.igoro.us wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:57:38AM -0700, fscked wrote:
> > > As Larry said, this most likely means there are null bytes in the CSV file.
>
> > > Ciao,
> > >         Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
>
> > How would I go about identifying where it is?
>
> A hex editor might be easiest.
>
> You could also use Python:
>
>   print open("filewithnuls").read().replace("\0", ">>>NUL<<<")
>
> Dustin

Hmm, interesting if I run:

print open("test.csv").read().replace("\0", ">>>NUL<<<")

every single character gets a >>>NUL<<< between them...

What the heck does that mean?

Example, here is the first field in the csv

89114608511,

the above code produces:
>>>NUL<<<8>>>NUL<<<9>>>NUL<<<1>>>NUL<<<1>>>NUL<<<4>>>NUL<<<6>>>NUL<<<0>>>NUL<<<8>>>NUL<<<5>>>NUL<<<1>>>NUL<<<1>>>NUL<<<,