If you can make sure the data has no newlines or tabs, the TSV needs no quoting. It is just "split" function, which is present in every language and very easy t

If you can make sure the data has no newlines or tabs, the TSV needs no quoting. It is just "split" function, which is present in every language and very easy to use. When I use it, I usually add a check to writer that there is no newlines or tabs in data, and assert if this is not the case. You use this tsv with Unix tools like "cut", "paste", and ad-hoc scripts. There is also "tsv" as defined by excel, which has quoting and stuff. It is basically a dialect of CSV (Python even uses the same module to read it), and has all the disadvantages of CSV. Avoid it.