low-level csv

[Dan Sommers]

On 11/17/19 7:18 AM, Antoon Pardon wrote:
> This is python 2.6->2.7 and 3.5->3.7
> 
> I need to convert a string that is a csv line to a list and vice versa.
> I thought to find functions doing this in the csv module but that doesn't
> seem to be the case.
> 
> I can of course write special classes that would allow for this using
> a csv.reader and csv.writer but that would be some convoluted code.
> 
> Anyone some suggestions?

Wrap your string in a list; csv.reader takes an iterator:

     s = "some, string, with, commas"
     r = csv.reader([s])
     for x in r:
         print x

Dan