[Tutor] Writing to CSV string containing quote and comma

[Joel Goldstick]

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:52 PM, J Sutar <jsutar at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> Posting for first time so hope I get the forum etiquette and rules right,
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> I'm trying to write to csv a string which contains double quotation marks
> and a comma however I'm finding that the write reads the comma as a
> delimiter. If try wrap the string around double quotes it clashes with the
> raw quotes originally within the string text (which I'd like to/must
> preserve). Replacing double quotes with single quotes is neither an option
> as I may have text containing single quotes (as in the number four example
> below).
>
> Python has a csv reader and writer module.  You should check it out.
>
>
> A helping hand on this would be very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Jignesh
>
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