vsoler wrote: > > Thank you very much for all your comments. After reading them I can > conclude that: > > 1- the CSV format is not standardized; each piece of software uses it > differently
True, but there are commonalities. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values > > 2- the "C" in "CSV" does not mean "comma" for Microsoft Excel; the ";" > comes from my regional Spanish settings The C really does stand for comma. I've never seen MS spit out semi-colon separated text on a CSV format. > > 3- Excel does not even put quotes around litteral texts, not even when > the text contains a blank There is no need to quote text literals with whitespace in them. There is a need when a newline exists or when the separator character is embedded in the field. --David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list