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Re:Time to retire the CSV? by newbie2020 on Thursday August 19, 2021 @01:15AM (#28230584)
Hah, I use the join function when I write them. Can you elaborate upon why that’s bad?
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Re:Time to retire the CSV? by fuhrysteve on Thursday August 19, 2021 @04:30PM (#28238969)
Doesn't require a whole lot of elaboration.

",".join(["a,b","c","d\ne","\"f\",g\""])

yields:

a,b,c,d

e,"f",g"

Try opening that in any csv reader.

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