With all of this CSV parsing discussion, I received a couple of requests for enhancements to my fast CSV module. The enhancements are:

- Parser object now has the field_sep attribute. This is the character which is used to delimit fields in records.

I found (and reported) a bug in the Python PyMember_Set() function while adding this feature.

- Parser object now has the join() method which combines the elements in a sequence and returns a CSV record in a string.

The new module can be downloaded from:

http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/csv/

As pointed out on the page, the module runs only slightly slower than string.split().

- Dave