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CSV FILES

CSV stands for comma separated values.


CSV is just like a txt file, in a human readable format which
is extensively used to store tabular data , in a spreadsheet or
database.
The separator character of CSV files is called a delimiter.
Default delimiter is comma(,),other delimiters are tab(‘\
t’),colon(:),pipe(|),semicolon(;) characters.
Each line of a file is a record.
Each record consists of fields separated by
commas(delimiter)
ADVANTAGES OF CSV FILES
 Easier to create.
 Preferred import and export format for databases and
spreadsheets.
 Capable of storing large amount of data.
 CSV is faster to handle
 CSV is smaller in size
 CSV is easy to generate
 CSV is human readable and easy to edit manually
 CSV is simple to implement and parse
 CSV is processed by almost all existing applications.
DISADVANTAGES OF CSV FILES
 No standard way to represent binary data.
 There is no distinction between text and numeric values.
 Poor support of special characters and control characters
 CSV allows to move most basic data only. Complex
configurations cannot be imported and exported this way.
 Problems with importing CSV into SQL(no distinction between
NULL and quotes)
PYTHON CSV MODULE
 CSV module provides two type of objects:
1. Reader- to read from the csv files.
2. Writer- to write in to the csv files.
 To import csv module in our program , write the following
statement: import csv
OPENING / CLOSING CSV FILES
 Open a csv files:
f=open(“stu.csv”,”w”)
or
f=open(“stu.csv”,”r”)
 Close a csv files:
f.close()
ROLE OF ARGUMENT NEWLINE IN OPENING OF CSV FILES

o Newline argument specifies how would python handle new line characters
while working with csv files, on different operating systems.
o Different operating systems store EOL characters differently.

Symbol/Char Meaning Operating System

CR[\r] Carriage Return Macintosh

LF[\n] Line Feed UNIX

CR/LF[\r \n] Carriage Return/ MSDOS , windows


Line Feed
NULL[\0] NULL character Other OSs
WRITING IN CSV FILES
Csv .writer() Returnsa writer object which writes data
into csv files

<writerobjject>.writerow() Writes one row of data on to the writer


object.

<writerobjject>.writerows() Write multiple rows of the writer object.


ROLE OF WRITER OBJECT
 The csv.writer() function returns a writer object
that converts the user’s data into a dellimited
string. This string can later be used to write into
CSV files using the writerow() function or
writerows() function .

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