UnicodeDictWriter - write unicode strings out to Excel compatible CSV files using Python. Stuart Langridge and I spent quite a while this morning battling with Excel. The magic combination for storing unicode text in a CSV file such that Excel correctly reads it is UTF-16, a byte order mark and tab delimiters rather than commas.
Recent articles
- Storing times for human events - 27th November 2024
- Ask questions of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files in your terminal - 25th November 2024
- Weeknotes: asynchronous LLMs, synchronous embeddings, and I kind of started a podcast - 22nd November 2024