How can I use quotes without escaping them using CSV?

[Reedick, Andrew]

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> list-bounces+jr9445=att.com at python.org] On Behalf Of jeffself
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> Subject: How can I use quotes without escaping them using CSV?
> 
> 
> If I put an escape character in, it works.  For example, if I use ~ as
> my escape character, my output looks like this:
> 0001[tab]Michael L. ~"Mick~" Jones[tab]189
> 
> I don't want that. If I don't include an escape character, it doesn't
> work.
> 
> 
> Here's my code:
> import sys
> import csv
> from readexcel import *
> 
> f = open("results.txt", 'wb')
> book = sys.argv[1]
> sheet = sys.argv[2]
> 
> xl = readexcel(book)
> sheetnames = xl.worksheets()
> 
> for s in sheetnames:
>     if s == sheet:
>         writer = csv.writer(f, delimiter='\t', quoting=csv.QUOTE_NONE)
>         for row in xl.getiter(s):
> 
>
writer.writerow((row['Precinct'],row['Candidate'],unicode(int(row['Vote
> s']))))
> f.close()
> 


The documentation is pretty, uhm, obtuse, but you also need to set
quotechar.

import sys
import csv

names = ['Michael L. "Mick" Jones', 'Vickie A. Meyers', 'John "Jack"
Smith']

writer = csv.writer(sys.stdout, delimiter='\t', quotechar='',
quoting=csv.QUOTE_NONE)
for i in names:
	writer.writerow(['a', i, 'b'])

output:
a       Michael L. "Mick" Jones b
a       Vickie A. Meyers        b
a       John "Jack" Smith       b



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