On Feb 2, 6:18 am, vsoler <vicente.so...@gmail.com> wrote: > > r: in the open statement, why do you use 'rb' as 2nd argument? b is > supposed to be binary, and my file is text!
Because unlike Stephen, r has read the csv manual. Binary mode is required to handle properly cases like '\n' embedded in a field -- something which can easily happen when the data has been extracted from a database with slack data-entry validation. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
