bruce g wrote: > What is the best way to parse a CSV string to a list? > > For example, how do I parse: > 'AAA,"BBBB,CCCC,DDDD",EEE,FFF,GGG' > to get: > ['AAA','BBB,CCC,DDDD','EEE','FFF','GGG’]
>>> import csv >>> next(csv.reader(['AAA,"BBBB,CCCC,DDDD",EEE,FFF,GGG'])) ['AAA', 'BBBB,CCCC,DDDD', 'EEE', 'FFF', 'GGG'] For multiple records: list(csv.reader(text.splitlines(True))) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
