[Tutor] De-CSV-ing?

[Simon Brunning]

> From:	Curtis Larsen [SMTP:curtis.larsen@Covance.Com]
> What would be the easiest (or simplest) way to convert a line from a CSV
> file into a list or tuple?
 
Well, the usual way of decoding csv files is to use a finite state machine -
see
<http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=finite+state+machine>.
Don't worry, that aren't as complicated as this page makes them sound!

But before writing anything yourself, it's often worth seeing if anyone else
has written something useful. After all, csv file processing is pretty
common, so someone else is *bound* to have done this before.

The first place to look is the Vaults of Parnassus -
<http://www.vex.net/parnassus/>. Searching there for 'csv' takes me to a
link to the 'ASV' module.

Hmmm. The ASV page seems to be down. But the module can still be downloaded
- <http://tratt.net/~laurie/python/asv/releases/asv-0.4.tar.gz>. See here -
<http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:2bPuHjkjtk4:tratt.net/~laurie/python/a
sv/+Python+asv&hl=en&lr=lang_en> for google's cache of the ASV page.

Hope this helps...

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning@trisystems.co.uk






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