Question on the "csv" library

[Hrvoje Niksic]

David Smith <dns4 at cornell.edu> writes:

>> 2- the "C" in "CSV" does not mean "comma" for Microsoft Excel; the ";"
>> comes from my regional Spanish settings
>
> The C really does stand for comma.  I've never seen MS spit out
> semi-colon separated text on a CSV format.

That's because you're running MS Office in a US language environment.
In almost all of Europe MS products use comma as the decimal separator,
and semicolon for CSV field separation.