[plug] Import more than 256 "cells" of data into a spreadsheet

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Thu Jul 14 11:49:35 WST 2005


On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 10:55 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> I've just noticed that both Excel and OO Spreadsheet/Calc have a built
> in limit of 256 columns.
> This is proving an issue for me because I need to import a line of
> text from a CSV that is about 366 cells.
> Is there some way to import them as a vertical column instead of a
> horizontal row?

One approach is a few lines of Python code - the `csv' module will
handle the format parsing, quoting etc for you.

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Craig Ringer




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