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On 2015-05-06 19:08, MRAB wrote:
> You could tell it to quote any value that's not a number:
> 
> 	w = csv.DictWriter(f, pol_keys,
> quoting=csv.QUOTE_NONNUMERIC)
> 
> It looks like all of the values you have are strings, so they'll
> all be quoted.
> 
> I would hope that Excel will then treat it as a string; it would be
> stupid if it didn't! :-)

Sadly, Excel *is* that stupid based on the tests I tried just now. :-(

Regardless of whether "Mar 2015" is quoted or unquoted in the source
CSV file, Excel tries to outwit you and mangles the presentation.

-tkc