working with csv files nd json data in you learned how to extract text from pdf and word documents these files were in binary formatwhich required special python modules to access their data csv and json fileson the other handare just plaintext files you can view them in text editorsuch as mu but python also comes with the special csv and json moduleseach providing functions to help you work with these file formats csv stands for "comma-separated values,and csv files are simplified spreadsheets stored as plaintext files python' csv module makes it easy to parse csv files json (pronounced "jay-sawnor "jason"--it doesn' matter how because either way people will say you're pronouncing it wrongis format that stores information as javascript source code in plaintext files (json is short for javascript object notation you don' need to know the javascript programming language to use json filesbut the json format is useful to know because it' used in many web applications