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Re: issue with CVS module

From MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: issue with CVS module
Date 2016-03-11 21:14 +0000
Message-ID <mailman.5.1457730898.12893.python-list@python.org> (permalink)
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On 2016-03-11 20:49, Fillmore wrote:
> On 3/11/2016 2:41 PM, Fillmore wrote:
>> Is there some directive I can give CVS reader to tell it to stop
>> screwing with my text?
>
> OK, I think I reproduced my problem at the REPL:
>
>   >>> import csv
>   >>> s = '"Please preserve my doublequotes"\ttext1\ttext2'
>   >>> reader = csv.reader([s], delimiter='\t')
>   >>> for row in reader:
> ...     print(row[0])
> ...
> Please preserve my doublequotes
>   >>>
>
> :(
>
> How do I instruct the reader to preserve my doublequotes?
>
> As an aside. split() performs the job correctly...
>
>   >>> allVals = s.split("\t")
>   >>> print(allVals[0])
> "Please preserve my doublequotes"
>   >>>
>
 >>> import csv
 >>> s = '"Please preserve my doublequotes"\ttext1\ttext2'
 >>> reader = csv.reader([s], delimiter='\t', quotechar=None)
 >>> for row in reader:
...     print(row[0])
...
"Please preserve my doublequotes"
 >>>

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issue with CVS module Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-03-11 14:41 -0500
  Re: issue with CVS module Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 15:05 -0500
    Re: issue with CVS module Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-03-11 15:32 -0500
      Re: issue with CVS module mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2016-03-11 21:04 +0000
      Re: issue with CVS module Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-03-12 08:13 +1100
  Re: issue with CVS module Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-03-11 15:49 -0500
    Re: issue with CVS module MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-03-11 21:14 +0000
      Re: issue with CVS module Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-03-11 16:23 -0500
    Re: issue with csv module (subject module name spelling correction, too) "Martin A. Brown" <martin@linux-ip.net> - 2016-03-11 13:20 -0800
  Re: issue with CVS module Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-11 21:15 +0000
    Re: issue with CVS module Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-03-11 16:26 -0500
      Re: issue with CVS module alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2016-03-12 09:49 +0000
  Re: issue with CVS module Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-03-11 16:29 -0500

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