[issue7350] csv doesn't handle escaped characters properly

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[issue7350] csv doesn't handle escaped characters properly

Virgil Dupras added the comment: You have to tell the reader how to handle escaping. In your case, you should send escapechar="\\" in reader()'s kwargs. -- nosy: +vdupras ___ Python tracker ___

[issue7350] csv doesn't handle escaped characters properly

New submission from Eric Torstenson : When I use CSV with a separator, if there is an escaped separator in the field, it causes the next field to become part of the current one: file = csv.reader(open(filename), delimiter='\t', quotechar="'") for words in file: print words[0-8] If, say line