The problem with TSV is what are you going to do about quotes. Some fields might contain them [1] or they might be needed to store fields with tabs inside them.

The problem with TSV is what are you going to do about quotes. Some fields might contain them [1] or they might be needed to store fields with tabs inside them. Because of this in order to read a plain simple TSV (fields separated by tabs, nothing more) with the Python csv module [2] you need to set the quote character to an improbable value, say € (using the euro sign because HN won't let me use U+1F40D), or just parse it by hand, e.g. row.split('\t'). [1]: https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit/issues/1194 https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit/issues/1194 [2]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html