Re: How best to archive in CSV format
Re: How best to archive in CSV format
- Subject: Re: How best to archive in CSV format
- From: Bob Ippolito <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 22:36:40 -0400
On May 16, 2005, at 10:12 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
On May 17, 2005, at 9:43 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
One alternative is to look at PyObjC, because Python ships with a
csv module.. though it's not optimal since current versions have a
limitation such that it only knows how to deal with bytestrings,
not unicode, so you have to encode everything into utf-8 before
putting it into the csv and decode it from utf-8 after getting it
out.
I've used python to read a csv file and it can't handle mac line
endings too, which the files I need to read have. So, with PyObjC,
I used NSString's componentsSeparatedByString: method to read the
file, so I have found this to be useful, but obviously you have to
experiment given on csv files you have. I did have to strip some
quote marks from the ends of the array of strings, but I was able
to still do it easily with NSString and NSArray methods.
Actually it can read Mac line endings (bare '\r') just fine if you
open the file with universal newlines (the 'U' mode). I do this all
the time.
-bob
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