[wellylug] curly csv formatting

Damon Lynch damon at photo.geek.nz
Wed Jul 14 22:25:26 NZST 2004


On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 22:19, Pizbit wrote:
> And when I say the import cvs I thought you were going to show how to do it.

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-csv.html

:)

> Although I must admit that sed stuff is just plain danged crazy!
> 
> What's with the dutch? Is it just generally accepted that they're crazy?

http://www.python.org/~guido/

Best wishes,
Damon

> 
> Damon Lynch wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 22:04, Jamie Baddeley wrote:
> > 
> >>yep. I looked at it and my hair turned ginger!
> >>
> >>:-)
> >>
> >>jamie
> > 
> > 
> > $ python
> > Python 2.3.3 (#2, Feb 17 2004, 11:45:40)
> > [GCC 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-6mdk)] on linux2
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> > 
> >>>>import csv
> >>>>import this
> > 
> > The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters
> >  
> > Beautiful is better than ugly.
> > Explicit is better than implicit.
> > Simple is better than complex.
> > Complex is better than complicated.
> > Flat is better than nested.
> > Sparse is better than dense.
> > Readability counts.
> > Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
> > Although practicality beats purity.
> > Errors should never pass silently.
> > Unless explicitly silenced.
> > In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
> > There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
> > Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
> > Now is better than never.
> > Although never is often better than *right* now.
> > If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
> > If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
> > Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 




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