Here is a file "test.csv" number,name,description,value 1,"wer","tape 2"",5 1,vvv,"hoohaa",2
I want to convert it to tab-separated without those silly quotes. Note in the second line that a field is 'tape 2"' , ie two inches: there is a double quote in the string. When I use csv module to read this: import sys outf=open(sys.argv[1]+'.tsv','wt') import csv reader=csv.reader(open(sys.argv[1], "rb")) for row in reader: outf.write('\t'.join([rr.strip() for rr in row]) +'\n') it mangles it, messing up the double double-quote. Can anyone help me? How do I use CSV to get it right? Tjhanks! c -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list