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Help · post #3

And keep newline="" on that open() call if you're using the csv module.


by lintroller
Help · post #2

Nothing wrong, Excel is guessing. Without a BOM it assumes the Windows codepage when you double click a CSV. Use encoding="utf-8-sig" and it'll write the three BOM bytes at the start, and Excel will t…


by ines
Help · post #1

My class list has names like José and Zoë. I write it from Python with open("list.csv", "w", encoding="utf-8") and LibreOffice shows it correctly. On the school computers with Excel it shows José. Wh…


by bea
General · post #4

Excel macros, and I'm not sorry. Got me a raise before I knew what a loop was called.


by kettle
General · post #3

sh. Nothing else was installed.


by vek
General · post #2

QBasic. Program that worked out how much of each paint to buy for model aircraft. Dad used it more than I did.


by oldpc
General · post #1

Not the first one you typed hello world in. The first one where the program did a job you needed done and you kept using it. For me it was a horrible little AWK script in about 1999 that reformatted m…


by quill
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