[Tutor] Terminating "\M" characters with regard to csv.DictWriter

[boB Stepp]

On 21/08/08 07:05PM, Alex Kleider wrote:
>Using the csv module's DictReader and DictWriter to update data in a file
>one of my functions is as follows:
>
>def dict_write(f, fieldnames, iterable):
>    """
>    Writes all records received from <iterable> into a new csv
>    file named <f>.  <fieldnames> defines the record keys.
>    Code writen in such a way that <iterable> could be
>    a generator function.
>    """
>    with open(f, 'w', newline="") as outfile_obj:
>        print("Opening {} for output...".format(outfile_obj.name))
>        dict_writer = csv.DictWriter(outfile_obj, fieldnames)
>        dict_writer.writeheader()
>        for record in iterable:
>            dict_writer.writerow(record)
>
>All works as I would like except that the newly generated csv file has a
>'\M' at the end of each line.  I only became aware of this when doing a

In a comment to the answer at
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/82536/showing-type-of-newline-character-in-emacs

it says:

<quote>
And if you set the buffer to Unix line endings when the file contains DOS line
endings, it will show the CRs as \Ms at the end of each line – Michael Mrozek
Jul 10 '13 at 19:53
</quote>

I imagine emacs and vim display things similarly and I know you use Linux.
Could this be it?

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Wishing you only the best,

boB Stepp