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

[Craig Ringer]

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 11:49 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> 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.

I should've been clearer - I meant rotating the data to be represented
as rows, using Python and `csv'.

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Craig Ringer