csv2text is a program I wrote to illustrate a point I made on comp.lang.python about not just creating great Python modules, or Python programs, but of doing both at the same time. This program makes the CSV module of Python more accessible by creating a program 'filter' that guesses and parses a csv file type on standard input and generates different formats on standard output.

At the moment, output types are CSV, HTML (as an HTML table), and a text format that is written to be easily parsed by tools such as TCL or AWK that may not have such a powerful CSV reader module handy. The text format has conversions to allow AWK to handle CSV files with fields that contain embedded newlines (XL can generate that type of CSV file).

Homepage: http://www.paddyx.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/csv2txt/README.html

Cheers, Paddy.