2009/8/28 John Machin sjmac...@lexicon.net:
Mark, there exist parallel universes the denizens of which use strange
notation e.g. 1.234,56 instead of 1,234.56
When displaying data, sure.
and would you believe they
use ';' instead of ',' as a list separator ...
CSV is a data transfer format,
John Machin wrote:
On Aug 28, 6:44 am, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
vsoler wrote:
On Aug 27, 9:42 pm, Andreas Waldenburger use...@geekmail.invalid
1- the csv file was generated with Excel 2007; no prompts for what the
separator should be; Excel has used ; by default, without
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:03:49 +0100 Mark Lawrence
breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
p.s. is it separator or seperator, after 50+ years I still can't
remember?
The former. It's cognate to English part if that helps any.
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On Aug 27, 3:06 pm, vsoler vicente.so...@gmail.com wrote:
I am trying to read a csv file generated by excel.
Although I succeed in reading the file, the format that I get is not
suitable for me.
I've done:
import csv
spamReader = csv.reader(open('C:\\abc.csv', 'r'))
print spamReader
On Aug 28, 5:43 pm, Steven Rumbalski googleacco...@rumbalski.com
wrote:
On Aug 27, 3:06 pm, vsoler vicente.so...@gmail.com wrote:
I am trying to read a csv file generated by excel.
Although I succeed in reading the file, the format that I get is not
suitable for me.
I've done:
En Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:35:19 -0300, vsoler vicente.so...@gmail.com
escribió:
On Aug 28, 5:43 pm, Steven Rumbalski googleacco...@rumbalski.com
wrote:
On Aug 27, 3:06 pm, vsoler vicente.so...@gmail.com wrote:
I am trying to read a csv file generated by excel.
['a;qwe;1']
['b;asd;2']
vsoler wrote:
Thank you very much for all your comments. After reading them I can
conclude that:
1- the CSV format is not standardized; each piece of software uses it
differently
True, but there are commonalities. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values
2- the C in
vsoler wrote:
On Aug 28, 5:43 pm, Steven Rumbalski googleacco...@rumbalski.com
wrote:
On Aug 27, 3:06 pm, vsoler vicente.so...@gmail.com wrote:
I am trying to read a csv file generated by excel.
Although I succeed in reading the file, the format that I get is not
suitable for me.
I've done:
David Smith d...@cornell.edu writes:
2- the C in CSV does not mean comma for Microsoft Excel; the ;
comes from my regional Spanish settings
The C really does stand for comma. I've never seen MS spit out
semi-colon separated text on a CSV format.
That's because you're running MS Office in a
On Aug 29, 2:35 am, vsoler vicente.so...@gmail.com wrote:
3- Excel does not even put quotes around litteral texts, not even when
the text contains a blank
Correct. Quoting is necessary only if a text field contains a
delimiter (semicolon/comma), a newline, or the quote character.
You can read
I am trying to read a csv file generated by excel.
Although I succeed in reading the file, the format that I get is not
suitable for me.
I've done:
import csv
spamReader = csv.reader(open('C:\\abc.csv', 'r'))
print spamReader
_csv.reader object at 0x01022E70
for row in spamReader:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:06 PM, vsoler vicente.so...@gmail.com wrote:
I am trying to read a csv file generated by excel.
Although I succeed in reading the file, the format that I get is not
suitable for me.
I've done:
import csv
spamReader = csv.reader(open('C:\\abc.csv', 'r'))
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:36:28 +0200 Andreas Waldenburger
use...@geekmail.invalid wrote:
[snip]
Might I humbly suggest
sheet = list(spamReader) # ?
Oh, and while I'm humbly suggesting:
spam_reader instead of spamReader or SpamReader or SpamrEadeR or
suchlike. Caps are reserved for
On Aug 27, 9:42 pm, Andreas Waldenburger use...@geekmail.invalid
wrote:
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:36:28 +0200 Andreas Waldenburger
use...@geekmail.invalid wrote:
[snip]
Might I humbly suggest
sheet = list(spamReader) # ?
Oh, and while I'm humbly suggesting:
spam_reader instead of
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:12:07 -0700 (PDT) vsoler
vicente.so...@gmail.com wrote:
On Aug 27, 9:42 pm, Andreas Waldenburger use...@geekmail.invalid
wrote:
[snip what I wrote]
Thank you for your answers. Let me however make some comments:
1- the csv file was generated with Excel 2007; no
vsoler wrote:
On Aug 27, 9:42 pm, Andreas Waldenburger use...@geekmail.invalid
wrote:
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:36:28 +0200 Andreas Waldenburger
use...@geekmail.invalid wrote:
[snip]
Might I humbly suggest
sheet = list(spamReader) # ?
Oh, and while I'm humbly suggesting:
spam_reader instead
On Aug 28, 6:44 am, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
vsoler wrote:
On Aug 27, 9:42 pm, Andreas Waldenburger use...@geekmail.invalid
1- the csv file was generated with Excel 2007; no prompts for what the
separator should be; Excel has used ; by default, without asking
anything
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