How to read a csv file with python

Question

I\'m trying to read a csv file but it doesn\'t work. I can read my csv file but when I see what I read, there where white space between values.

Here is my code

Answer 1

If you have control over the data, use tab-delimited instead::

import csv
import string

writer = open('junk.txt', 'wb')
for x in range(10):
    writer.write('\t'.join(string.letters[:5]))
    writer.write('\r\n')
writer.close()
reader = csv.reader(open('junk.txt', 'r'), dialect='excel-tab')
for line in reader:
    print line

This produces expected results.

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