csv Parser Question - Handling of Double Quotes

Aaron Watters aaron.watters at gmail.com
Fri Mar 28 09:33:29 EDT 2008


On Mar 27, 6:00 pm, John Machin <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:
> ...The Python csv module emulates Excel in delivering garbage silently in
> cases when the expected serialisation protocol has (detectably) not
> been followed....

Fine, but I'd say the heuristic adopted produces
bizarre and surprising results in the illustrated case.
It's a matter of taste of course...
  -- Aaron Watters

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