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CSV is honestly not that problematic. Figuring out if an field contains and comma and then properly quoting it is trivial. And fields without commas don't need quoting. Sometimes your application even guarantees no commas, especially if CSV is into it from the beginning.

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I'm guessing you haven't worked in custom support where people send you their "CSV" files. Even the field delimiter varies (many Europeans use semi-colons).

No, I have. I don't consider abuse of the format a problem with the format. Though I can see how having to delimit with special characters will help the type of person who writes print(','.join(stuff)).

>I don't consider abuse of the format a problem with the format.

That's a fair point. But you could argue that when the abuse is so widespread, it becomes a defacto part of the format (even if it isn't in the RFC).

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