[CSV] RE: Number of lines in CSV files

[Cliff Wells]

On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 16:31, Kevin Altis wrote:
> > From: Cliff Wells
> >
> > Another thing that just occurred to me is that Excel has historically
> > been limited in the number of rows and columns that it can import.  This
> > number has increased with recent versions (I think it was 32K lines in
> > Excel 97, Kevin informs me it's 64K in Excel 2000).
> >
> > Since export will be a feature of the CSV module, should we have some
> > sort of warning or raise an exception when exporting data larger than
> > the target application can handle, or should we just punt on this?
> 
> +1 on punt
> 
> The user may not actually be trying to import into Excel, they may be using
> Access, later versions of Excel might support more rows, whatever. Plus,
> Excel still imports the data, it just can't deal with more than 64K rows in
> Excel 2000.

I guess we need to decide what we mean by "dialect":  do we mean "this
data _will_ import into this application" or do we mean "this data will
be written in a format this application can understand, but might not
necessarily be able to use"?  

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Cliff Wells, Software Engineer
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