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Week 9 Lesson 1

Text Data Formats

In this lesson, you will learn about the two different kinds of text files by writing the airport data to both a delimiter separated file and a fixed-width format file.

###Objectives ### By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

• Understand how to read and write a delimiter separated file.
• Understand how to read and write a fixed width format file.

Time Estimate

Approximately 2 hours.

Readings

• Course IPython Notebook on Data Formats
• The Delimiter Separated Value format
• The Comma Separated Value format

Optional Additional Readings####

• The W3C Working group document repository for CSV.

Assessment

When you have completed and worked through the above readings, please take the Week 9 Lesson 1 Assessment.