[issue27580] CSV Null Byte Error

2016-07-21 Thread Bobby Ocean
Bobby Ocean added the comment: I attempted to open the file in excel; raised no errors. In any case (regardless of Microsoft-concerns), I am glad to see a discussion started and possibly some concern that an update might be useful to the community (it would certainly cut down on the number

[issue27580] CSV Null Byte Error

2016-07-21 Thread Bobby Ocean
Bobby Ocean added the comment: I am sorry I must have mis-read the history part of that article. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue27580> ___ ___

[issue27580] CSV Null Byte Error

2016-07-21 Thread Bobby Ocean
Bobby Ocean added the comment: @ Skip Montanaro, Actually, CSV has nothing to do with excel. Excel is a gui that processes CSV like many other programs. CSV stands for comma seperated values and is basic standard for data.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values As far as I

[issue27580] CSV Null Byte Error

2016-07-20 Thread Bobby Ocean
New submission from Bobby Ocean: I think this has been asked before, but it has been awhile and I think needs to be re-addressed. Why doesn't the CSV module handle NULL bytes? Let me do some examples, ascii = [chr(n) for n in range(256)] #No errors print(ascii) #No errors print(dic