delineating by comma where commas inside quotation marks don't count

[Dan Bishop]

On Oct 24, 8:56 pm, "Junior" <mlon... at verizon.net> wrote:
> I want to open a text file for reading and delineate it by comma.  I also
> want any data
> surrounded by quotation marks that has a comma in it, not to count the
> commas inside the
> quotation marks

Use the csv module.