On Aug 24, 11:30 am, JKPeck <jkp...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to get the csv module (Python 2.6) to write data records > like Excel. The excel dialect isn't doing it. The problem is in > writing None values. I want them to result in just sequential commas > - ,, but csv treats None specially, as the doc says, > > "To make it as easy as possible to interface with modules which > implement the DB API, the value None is written as the empty string." > > I need strings to be quoted but not None values. Is there any way to > get around this special None treatment? > > TIA, > Jon Peck
Solved the problem myself by giving a writer class to csv.writer that looks for sentinel markers inserted in place of None and wipes them out before writing to a file. Pretty ugly, but it works. Regards, Jon Peck -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
