title: Python CSV : field containing quotation mark at the beginning
body: <p>I am trying to read a CSV file containing a line like following:</p>
  <pre><code>test,&quot;test,&quot;test,test,test,test
  </code></pre>
  <p>There is a problem with the quotation marks (There are six fields, but they are retrieved as five fields, as &quot;test,&quot;test is read as a single field).</p>
  <p>I have tried modifying the entry as follows, but I still can't retrieve the quotation mark:</p>
  <pre><code>test,&quot;&quot;test,&quot;&quot;test,test,test,test  # quotation marks disappear when the entry is read.
  
  test,\&quot;test,\&quot;test,test,test,test  # backslashes are also retrieved; escaping doesn't seem to work.
  </code></pre>
  <p>I'm reading CSV file this way:</p>
  <pre><code>info_source = csv.reader(open('.info.csv'), skipinitialspace=True)
  
  for row in ling_info_source:
      data = row[1].strip()
      ...
  </code></pre>