Question on the "csv" library

[John Machin]

On Aug 28, 6:44 am, Mark Lawrence <breamore... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> vsoler wrote:
> > On Aug 27, 9:42 pm, Andreas Waldenburger <use... at geekmail.INVALID>
>
> > 1- the csv file was generated with Excel 2007; no prompts for what the
> > separator should be; Excel has used ";" by default, without asking
> > anything
>
> I find this difficult to believe,

Mark, there exist parallel universes the denizens of which use strange
notation e.g. 1.234,56 instead of 1,234.56 and would you believe they
use ';' instead of ',' as a list separator ... Excel perfidiously
gives them what they expect rather than forcing them to comply with
The One True Way.