[Tutor] Difficulty with csv files - line breaks

[Tim Goddard]

> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:01:38 -0800
> From: Albert Sweigart <asweigart at gmail.com>
> To: tutor at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Difficulty with csv files - line breaks
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> Tim,
>
> I've checked your code and it seems to work as far as using newlines
> for the line terminator. The default line terminator is \r\n, which
> might not show up correctly in some text editors.
>
> Otherwise, try checking to see if you've specified a blank line for
> the line terminator. You can set it explicitly when you create your
> csv.writer:
>
> writer = csv.writer(text_file, quoting=csv.QUOTE_NONNUMERIC,
> lineterminator='\r\n')
>
>
> -Al
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>
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Al, That helped out a lot.  I had worked around this problem by
writing a "\n" after writing the csv information.

text_file.write("\n")

Setting the lineterminator explicitly fixes it and cleans up my code.