read csv error question

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:43 PM, MRAB <google at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:

> Vincent Davis wrote:
>
>> I am trying to read a csv file from excel on a mac. I get the following
>> error.
>> SystemExit: file some.csv, line 1: new-line character seen in unquoted
>> field - do you need to open the file in universal-newline mode?
>> I was using the example code
>> import csv, sys
>>
>> reader = csv.reader(open('/Volumes/vincentdavis
>> 2/match/data/matchdata2008.csv', "rb"))
>> try:
>>    for row in reader:
>>        print row
>> except csv.Error, e:
>>    sys.exit('file %s, line %d: %s' % (filename, reader.line_num, e))
>>
>> I think this has to do with the end of line character but I am unsure how
>> to fix it. I don't what to change the actual csv file I would like to fix
>> the code.
>>
>>  FYI, Mac line endings are carriage-return '\r', Linux line endings are
> linefeed '\n', and Windows endings are _both_ '\r\n'.
>

Just to clarify, only the old Mac OSes (1-9) use carriage returns. OS X is
Unix-based so it uses line feeds.



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