On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:43 PM, MRAB <goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> Vincent Davis wrote: > >> I am trying to read a csv file from excel on a mac. I get the following >> error. >> SystemExit: file some.csv, line 1: new-line character seen in unquoted >> field - do you need to open the file in universal-newline mode? >> I was using the example code >> import csv, sys >> >> reader = csv.reader(open('/Volumes/vincentdavis >> 2/match/data/matchdata2008.csv', "rb")) >> try: >> for row in reader: >> print row >> except csv.Error, e: >> sys.exit('file %s, line %d: %s' % (filename, reader.line_num, e)) >> >> I think this has to do with the end of line character but I am unsure how >> to fix it. I don't what to change the actual csv file I would like to fix >> the code. >> >> FYI, Mac line endings are carriage-return '\r', Linux line endings are > linefeed '\n', and Windows endings are _both_ '\r\n'. > Just to clarify, only the old Mac OSes (1-9) use carriage returns. OS X is Unix-based so it uses line feeds. > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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