Abnormal \r characters inside a .csv text file raise
an error when the file is read by csv.reader() (Python
2.3).
I'm sending the following files:
test.txt : a "csv"-like text file with a \r
character;
test1.txt : same file, with an x replacing \r;
example.txt: the hard copy of my Python shell when
testing csv.reader() on former files.
I found this error when reading a many-mega, SAS
export csv file; I'm a Python beginner, and I found
hard to understand such an error and to find the three
abnormal \r characters inside!
This is a warning to newbies like me and a question
for experts: is it a bug into csv module?
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"third record","here abnormal
char"
"first record","second record"
"third record","here abnormal x char"
Python 2.3 (#46, Jul 29 2003, 18:54:32) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> import csv
>>> f=open("test.txt","rb") # the abnormal \r containig file
>>> f1=open("test1.txt","rb") # same file after replacing \r with x
>>> list(csv.reader(f))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#4>", line 1, in ?
list(csv.reader(f))
Error: newline inside string
>>> list(csv.reader(f1))
[['first record', 'second record'], ['third record', 'here abnormal x char']]
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