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by Buttons840 1117 days ago
I'm having flashbacks to a well funded startup I used to work at. People seemed to think that to how to handle having commas in data while still being able to use CSV files was an area of active research. At, like, a dozen different layers in the application we would strip commas from any and all strings, but they would still frequently slip through and screw up the entire pipeline. The complaints I made about this quickly used up what little political capital I had. The joys of `str.split ','` based CSV "parsing".
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You don't need to complain for this, just fix the code in all places by calling a better csv parser that you can also write.