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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:30:11 +1100
Subject: Re: RE Help splitting CVS data
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Garry <ggkraemer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks everyone for your comments.  I'm new to Python, but can get around in Perl and regular expressions.  I sure was taking the long way trying to get the cvs data parsed.

As has been hinted by Tim, you're actually talking about csv data -
Comma Separated Values. Not to be confused with cvs, an old vcs. (See?
The v can go anywhere...) Not a big deal, but it's much easier to find
stuff on PyPI or similar when you have the right keyword to search
for!

ChrisA