CSV new-line character seen in unquoted field error

Question

the following code worked until today when I imported from a Windows machine and got this error:

new-line character seen in unquoted field - do you need to o

Answer 1

This is an error that I faced. I had saved .csv file in MAC OSX.

While saving, save it as "Windows Comma Separated Values (.csv)" which resolved the issue.

Answer 2

For Mac OS X, save your CSV file in "Windows Comma Separated (.csv)" format.

Answer 3

I know this has been answered for quite some time but not solve my problem. I am using DictReader and StringIO for my csv reading due to some other complications. I was able to solve problem more simply by replacing delimiters explicitly:

with urllib.request.urlopen(q) as response:
    raw_data = response.read()
    encoding = response.info().get_content_charset('utf8') 
    data = raw_data.decode(encoding)
    if '\r\n' not in data:
        # proably a windows delimited thing...try to update it
        data = data.replace('\r', '\r\n')

Might not be reasonable for enormous CSV files, but worked well for my use case.