
File Formats
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The modules described in this chapter parse various miscellaneous file
formats that aren't markup languages and are not related to e-mail.

* "csv" --- CSV File Reading and Writing

  * Module Contents

  * Dialects and Formatting Parameters

  * Reader Objects

  * Writer Objects

  * Examples

* "configparser" --- Configuration file parser

  * Quick Start

  * Supported Datatypes

  * Fallback Values

  * Supported INI File Structure

  * Interpolation of values

  * Mapping Protocol Access

  * Customizing Parser Behaviour

  * Legacy API Examples

  * ConfigParser Objects

  * RawConfigParser Objects

  * Exceptions

* "netrc" --- netrc file processing

  * netrc Objects

* "xdrlib" --- Encode and decode XDR data

  * Packer Objects

  * Unpacker Objects

  * Exceptions

* "plistlib" --- Generate and parse Mac OS X ".plist" files

  * Examples
