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CSV in Python adding an extra carriage return, on Windows

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How do I load a file into the python console?

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How to remove items from a list while iterating?

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Python: Removing list element while iterating over list

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How to import a csv file using python with headers intact, where first column is a non-numerical

answered Aug 7, 2010 at 0:15

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Cost of len() function

answered Jul 12, 2009 at 6:17

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Python CSV error: line contains NULL byte

answered Nov 12, 2010 at 22:49

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Find path to currently running file

answered Aug 19, 2009 at 1:29

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How to preserve timezone when parsing date/time strings with strptime()?

answered Jul 22, 2010 at 8:08

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Correct way to write line to file?

answered May 29, 2011 at 3:02

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How to extract a floating number from a string

answered Jan 16, 2011 at 2:46

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Stripping everything but alphanumeric chars from a string in Python

answered Aug 15, 2009 at 0:33

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Check if string contains only whitespace

answered Mar 9, 2010 at 0:19

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Generating CSV file for Excel, how to have a newline inside a value

answered Aug 9, 2009 at 13:26

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Python 2 CSV writer produces wrong line terminator on Windows

answered Jul 23, 2009 at 7:53

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How to print the sign + of a digit for positive numbers in Python

answered May 4, 2010 at 7:09

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urllib.urlencode doesn't like unicode values: how about this workaround?

answered Jun 25, 2011 at 23:22

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Why am I seeing "TypeError: string indices must be integers"?

answered May 20, 2011 at 23:07

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TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable

answered Oct 8, 2010 at 6:22

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python-re: How do I match an alpha character

answered Jan 11, 2010 at 1:41

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In Python, how to check if a string only contains certain characters?

answered Aug 24, 2009 at 23:12

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Converting a Python Float to a String without losing precision

answered Aug 14, 2010 at 1:09

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Is it possible to convert a list-type into a generator without iterating through?

answered May 9, 2011 at 7:45

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How do I add the contents of an iterable to a set?

answered Oct 28, 2010 at 18:55

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Should I use 'has_key()' or 'in' on Python dicts?

answered Aug 24, 2009 at 22:11

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Get a list of all the encodings Python can encode to

answered Nov 15, 2009 at 4:08

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Use lambda expression to count the elements that I'm interested in Python

answered Sep 26, 2011 at 0:20

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How to append to a CSV file?

answered Nov 22, 2010 at 20:37

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Round with integer division

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python xlrd unsupported format, or corrupt file.

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CSV in Python adding an extra carriage return, on Windows

How do I load a file into the python console?

How to remove items from a list while iterating?

Python: Removing list element while iterating over list

How to import a csv file using python with headers intact, where first column is a non-numerical

Cost of len() function

Python CSV error: line contains NULL byte

Find path to currently running file

How to preserve timezone when parsing date/time strings with strptime()?

Correct way to write line to file?

How to extract a floating number from a string

Stripping everything but alphanumeric chars from a string in Python

Check if string contains only whitespace

Generating CSV file for Excel, how to have a newline inside a value

Python 2 CSV writer produces wrong line terminator on Windows

How to print the sign + of a digit for positive numbers in Python

urllib.urlencode doesn't like unicode values: how about this workaround?

Why am I seeing "TypeError: string indices must be integers"?

TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable

python-re: How do I match an alpha character

In Python, how to check if a string only contains certain characters?

Converting a Python Float to a String without losing precision

Is it possible to convert a list-type into a generator without iterating through?

How do I add the contents of an iterable to a set?

Should I use 'has_key()' or 'in' on Python dicts?

Get a list of all the encodings Python can encode to

Use lambda expression to count the elements that I'm interested in Python

How to append to a CSV file?

Round with integer division

python xlrd unsupported format, or corrupt file.