I'm new to programming and I encountered a problem in some of my coursework that I can't make any sense of. Consider an imaginary file called 'example.csv' with the following contents.
Key1,Value1
Key2,Value2
Key3,Value3
...
If I run the following code, it prints every line in the file followed by a single asterisk on the last line. I expected it to print each line separated by an asterisk.
infile = open("example.csv", "r")
for line in infile:
print line.strip()
print '*'
#row_elements = line.split(",")
#print row_elements
Furthermore, if I try to split the line at each comma by removing the hashes in the above code I get the following output.
['Key1', 'Value1\rKey2', 'Value2\rKey3'...
By instead passing "\r" to the .split() method the output is slightly improved.
['Key1,Value1', 'Key2,Value2'...
I still don't understand why python thinks the entire file is all on one line in the first place. Does anyone have insight into this?