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

* 13.1. "csv" — CSV File Reading and Writing

  * 13.1.1. Module Contents

  * 13.1.2. Dialects and Formatting Parameters

  * 13.1.3. Reader Objects

  * 13.1.4. Writer Objects

  * 13.1.5. Examples

* 13.2. "ConfigParser" — Configuration file parser

  * 13.2.1. RawConfigParser Objects

  * 13.2.2. ConfigParser Objects

  * 13.2.3. SafeConfigParser Objects

  * 13.2.4. Examples

* 13.3. "robotparser" —  Parser for robots.txt

* 13.4. "netrc" — netrc file processing

  * 13.4.1. netrc Objects

* 13.5. "xdrlib" — Encode and decode XDR data

  * 13.5.1. Packer Objects

  * 13.5.2. Unpacker Objects

  * 13.5.3. Exceptions

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

  * 13.6.1. Examples