A CSV file is a “comma-separated values” file. In plain English, this is a text file that contains an unusually large amount of data. More often than not, this is used in order to create ...

Just as an anecdote, programming languages like Python and R also provide ways to analyze and manipulate the data in CSV files; in the case of Python, it's called Pandas.

CSV, of course, stands for "Comma Separated Values", more often than not though, it seems that CSV files use tabs to separate values rather than commas. And let's not even mention field quoting. If ...

How to open CSV files in Python: store and retrieve large data sets How to write to a file in Python with modules Of course, some files are going to contain more complex formatting than others.

Some months back I developed some pyuno code for converting spreadsheets into CSV files from the command line. Pyuno being the Python interface to the OpenOffice runtime. One of the enhancement ...