import csv with open('test.csv', 'rb') as csvfile: spamreader = csv.reader(csvfile, delimiter=' ', quotechar='|') for row in spamreader: print(', '.join(row)) with open('test.csv', 'rU') as csvfile: spamreader = csv.reader(csvfile, delimiter=' ', quotechar='|') for row in spamreader: print(', '.join(row))