On 1 feb, 23:57, John Machin <sjmac...@lexicon.net> wrote: > On Feb 2, 6:18 am, vsoler <vicente.so...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > r: in the open statement, why do you use 'rb' as 2nd argument? b is > > supposed to be binary, and my file is text! > > Because unlike Stephen, r has read the csv manual. Binary mode is > required to handle properly cases like '\n' embedded in a field -- > something which can easily happen when the data has been extracted > from a database with slack data-entry validation.
Where can I get the csv manual? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
