> Is there a module/method in python to convert a file from .DBF format to > .CSV format?
Well, at http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/362715 there's a recipe for reading DBF files...iterating over the returned data from the function declared there, it should be pretty easy to simply dump the results to a CSV file...something like this untested: outfile = file('out.txt', 'w') for i, row in enumerate(dbfreader(file('x.txt'))): if i == 1: continue # skip colinfo line outfile.write('"') outfile.write('","'.join(str(v) for v in row)) outfile.write('"\n') Escaping quotes becomes mildly hairier, but only because there are a number of ways to do it. You'd just modify the "str(v)" with your escaping function...something like doubling them str(v).replace('"', '""') or str(v).replace('\\', '\\\\').replace('"', '\\"') using backslashes (where standalone-backslashes get escaped too) Just a few idea, -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
