Here's a quick script for dealing with merged CSV cells. Basically, if you need to unmerge a bunch of cells and duplicate what the value was into the split cells, here's an easy was to do it with python.
I've just had to do this over a ducument with almost 2 thousand rows, so I knocked this together and though I'd share it.
# -*- coding: utf-8-*-import csv
def get_index(lis):
''' returns the index values
for empty strings.
'''
results = []
for count, item in enumerate(lis):
if item == '':
results.append(count)
return results
with open('input.csv') as f:
data = csv.reader(f)
last_row = ''
for row in data:
if '' not in row:
last_row = row
else:
for i in get_index(row):
row[i] = last_row[i]
with open('output.csv', 'a') as out:
w = csv.writer(out)
w.writerow(row)