Question

I have two type of csv’s having data like:

Format 1 read from csv created from spreadsheet having two coloums.

datas = [[u'Woeoe;"[e-mail]"'], [u'wqqq;"[e-mail]"'], [u'Asasasa;"[e-mail]"']]

format 2 read from the csv created from text editor save as .csv and having data like

fname lname,[e-mail]
fname1 lname2 ,[e-mail]
datas = [[u'Vaada sasoe ', u'[e-mail]'], [u'skdod asksd ', u'[e-mail]']]

i have read those files with csv reader:

reader = csv.reader(input, quotechar='"', delimiter=',')
datas = []
for line in reader:
    datas.append(line)

how do i handle those two different format output of csv reader ? is their any way that i can convert the data while reading in to one simple comma separated format like format2 mention above if i input the any type of csv ? basically i want to data read should be in always in format2.

Answer 1

The first file use “;” as delimiter. So, you just have to say it to the reader.

Try to read the first file with csv.reader(input, quotechar='"', delimiter=';')