I appreciate, as described, some of your needs may differ from the standard format (I'd probably still use them to make interoperability between other l languag

I appreciate, as described, some of your needs may differ from the standard format (I'd probably still use them to make interoperability between other l languages/people/systems easier though and have my comments etc. in documentation). However, with all that in mind I may not have communicated well enough about CSV as a built in. > Most of my scripts are small, and adding libraries makes them more difficult to move around. So, I shy away from CSV as a format as a result. The CSV library I speak of is part[0] of the python standard library. Unless you're working with a restricted subset of the language or something it should have no impact on the size of your script or its portability between platforms/locations. [0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html