issue with CVS module

[Mark Lawrence]

On 11/03/2016 19:41, Fillmore wrote:
>
> I have a TSV file containing a few strings like this (double quotes are
> part of the string):
>
> '"pragma: CacheHandler=08616B7E907744E026C9F044250EA55844CCFD52"'
>
> After Python and the CVS module has read the file and re-printed the
> value, the string has become:
>
> 'pragma: CacheHandler=08616B7E907744E026C9F044250EA55844CCFD52'
>
> which is NOT good for me. I went back to Perl and noticed that Perl was
> correctly leaving the original string intact.
>
> This is what I am using to read the file:
>
>
> with open(file, newline='') as csvfile:
>
>      myReader = csv.reader(csvfile, delimiter='\t')
>      for row in myReader:
>
> and this is what I use to write the cell value
>
>      sys.stdout.write(row[0])
>
> Is there some directive I can give CVS reader to tell it to stop
> screwing with my text?
>
> Thanks

https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html#csv.Dialect.doublequote

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Mark Lawrence