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Re: issue with CVS module

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On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>
> I have a TSV file containing a few strings like this (double quotes are
> part of the string):
>
> '"pragma: CacheHandler=08616B7E907744E026C9F044250EA55844CCFD52"'
>
> After Python and the CVS module has read the file and re-printed the
> value, the string has become:
>
> 'pragma: CacheHandler=08616B7E907744E026C9F044250EA55844CCFD52'
>
> which is NOT good for me. I went back to Perl and noticed that Perl was
> correctly leaving the original string intact.
>
> This is what I am using to read the file:
>
>
> with open(file, newline='') as csvfile:
>
>     myReader = csv.reader(csvfile, delimiter='\t')
>     for row in myReader:
>
> and this is what I use to write the cell value
>
>     sys.stdout.write(row[0])
>
> Is there some directive I can give CVS reader to tell it to stop screwing
> with my text?
>
> Thanks
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>

Enter the python shell.  Import csv

then type help(csv)

It is highly configurable

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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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