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How to Read and Write CSV Files in Python

Introduction
CSV dialects
3. Built-in CSV dialects
Summary

Instruction

A CSV dialect is simply a list of parameters that specify the characteristics of a CSV file format. Python comes with some predefined dialects. To get to know them, you can use:

csv.list_dialects()

Let's run this code together.

Exercise

Run the template code. As you can see, there are three built-in dialects: excel, excel-tab, and unix.