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Hi,
Posting for first time so hope I get the forum etiquette and rules right,
please let me know otherwise.
I'm trying to write to csv a string which contains double quotation marks
and a comma however I'm finding that the write reads the comma as a
delimiter. If try wrap the string around double quotes it clashes with the
raw quotes originally within the string text (which I'd like to/must
preserve). Replacing double quotes with single quotes is neither an option
as I may have text containing single quotes (as in the number four example
below).
Numbers=[1,2,3,4,5]
Words=["One", "Two", "Three, with comma", "Four 'with single quote'",
"Five"]
NumPlusWordQuoted=[]
for (i, j) in zip(Numbers,Words):
NumPlusWordQuoted.append([str(i) + " " + chr(34) + j + chr(34)])
print NumPlusWordQuoted
outputfile="c:/temp/test.csv"
ofile = open(outputfile, 'wb')
ofile.write(",".join(str(n) for n in Numbers)) # 1. Numbers works ok
ofile.write("\n" + ",".join(chr(34) + w + chr(34) for w in Words)) #
2. Words works ok
ofile.write("\n"+",".join(chr(34) + i[0] + chr(34) for i in
NumPlusWordQuoted)) #3. Number plus words in quotes fails
ofile.close()
A helping hand on this would be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Jignesh
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