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From: Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu>
Subject: Re: parse a csv file into a text file
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:02:31 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-02-06, Zhen Zhang <zhen.zhang.uoft@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, every one.
>
> I am a second year EE student.
> I just started learning python for my project.
>
> I intend to parse a csv file with a format like 
>
> 3520005,"Toronto (Ont.)",C > ,F,2503281,2481494,F,F,0.9,1040597,979330,630.1763,3972.4,1
[...]
 into a text file like the following
>
> Toronto 2503281
[...]
> This is what i have so far.
>
>
> [code]
>
> import csv
> file = open('raw.csv')

You must open the file in binary mode, as that is what the csv
module expects in Python 2.7. newline handling can be enscrewed
if you forget.

file = open('raw.csv', 'b')

-- 
Neil Cerutti