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, not a display format. Locale specific stuff like this has no place in it. Dates, IMHO, should be in the ugly but unambiguous ISO 8601 format in a CSV. It's for import and export, not for looking pretty. Besides - CSV; the clue's in the name. ;-) > Excel perfidiously > gives them what they expect rather than forcing them to comply with > The One True Way. When people export to a comma separated value file, they are almost certainly expecting a file containing values separated by comas. If Excel isn't giving them this by default, it's broken. -- Cheers, Simon B. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list