CSV writing strings of text that need a unique delimiter

Question

I wrote an HTML parser in python used to extract data to look like this in a csv file:

    itemA, itemB, itemC, Sentence that might contain commas, or colons: li         


        

Answer 1

CSV files usually use double quotes " to wrap long fields that might contain a field separator like a comma. If the field contains a double quote it's escaped with a backslash: \".