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No. That's not at all what I'm saying. I am saying that a fixed CSV file will open differently depending on the program you open it with.

Don't even need to transfer it. Opening a csv in pandas can be different than opening with polars, can be different to DuckDB, can be different to Excel.

You've got not guarantees. There's no spec, and how edge cases (if you want to call how to serialize and deserialize a float an edge case) are handled is open to the implementation.

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