.txt vs .csv file format for data table manipulation
<p>I'm working on a program that needs to read values from excel table and then do some operations on them and save the results as a new file.</p>

<p>As python can't read an excel file directly, i first have to convert the file to .txt or .csv. It got me thinking if there's any real difference between the two file formates. The first one just seperates the two columns with \t and the other with a semicolon (when using .read() function in python). In case there isn't, why should one prefer .txt over another and vice versa?</p>
