Irrational Exuberance

You are writing a comment about Huge CSV and XML Files in Python, here is a quick summary:

Quick walkthrough of my code for converting a very large CSV file into a very large XML file using the Python standard libraries. Despite a few issues along the way, was a very pleasant experience.

You are responding to this comment written by Peter Burns on January 22nd 2009, 19:13.

That's a pretty good outline of the worst-case options, and I'll probably go with option 1 if my back's against the wall. At the moment, no one but me has tried AppleWorks 6 with the tool, so it might be a feature that nobody actually wants. Everyone else is using Excel, and I haven't yet seen it output nonsense, so here's hoping it never comes to that point.

Fundamentally, the lesson is that if you don't escape delimiters, you're going to destroy data.

In case you're curious, the app is at http://mqlx.com/reconciliation/recon.html though it won't be for too much longer.

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