On Wednesday, July 5, 2017 at 6:56:06 PM UTC+5:30, Thomas Nyberg wrote: > On 07/05/2017 03:18 PM, YOUR_NAME_HERE wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 13:02:36 +0000 (UTC) YOUR_NAME_HERE wrote: > >> I can use either tsv or csv. Which one would be better? > > > > > > Some people complain that tsv has problems, so maybe csv would be the way > > to go. > > > I almost always use csv personally, but it's a preference. I'm not sure > what the problems are you're refering to, but I guess that points to > using commas as well. Either way, it's not hard to switch between the two: > > import csv > > # Using regular commas > with open('outfile.csv', 'w') as outfile: > writer = csv.writer(outfile) > writer.writerow(range(5)) > > # Using tabs > with open('outfile.tsv', 'w') as outfile: > writer = csv.writer(outfile, delimiter='\t') > writer.writerow(range(5)) > > Cheers, > Thomas
Just curious, is it better, performance wise, to read from a text file (css or tsv) compared to reading from a binary pickle file? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list