Eric,

This issue was resolved for me by Skip Montanaro's response less than an 
hour after I posted it.  I didn't understand why a text file had to be 
binary, but I no longer had a problem with extraneous.  In looking back 
at my message 94441, I think that it was ambiguous and that I should 
have made it clear that I no longer had a problem.  Perhaps in my 
ignorance as a newbie I didn't close the issue properly. 

I don't know that I can reproduce the problem any more.  I think that I 
was writing snippets of code to try to isolate the problem and when I 
used Skip's solution I changed the program and deleted the test code.

Please let me know what I can do to help you now.

Bob

Éric Araujo wrote:
> Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> added the comment:
>
> Bob, can you give us some code to reproduce the problem, in the form or a unit test or even just a regular function? It will help confirm the bug and fix it.
>
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> nosy: +merwok
> stage:  -> unit test needed
> title: csv.writer -> Extraneous newlines with csv.writer on Windows
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