Importing data from other file formats than .sav

[Erik Frebold]

We advertise that pspp "interoperates with a variety of programs such as 
(Gnumeric) and OpenOffice.org". 
I'm having a bit of difficulty getting this to happen. What I'd like to do is 
get pspp to read data files output from simple python modules. Thus far, I've 
been trying to use psppire's "import delimited text data" function. Have saved 
small test files variously as .txt, .csv, or as a .csv with python-added commas 
between values. In all cases the data look fine in the home program, and also 
look fine in psppire's import function right up to the last step "ok", 
whereupon they produce multiple errors of the type: "dataSet.csv:1: data file 
warning: (columns 1-0, F field) Number followed by garbage." Only when each 
data value is separated from the next by a comma (and no spaces or carriage 
returns) do I escape these errors, but then each datum heads its own variable 
column in psppire. 
Meanwhile, same file saved as .ods (open document format spreadsheet) or as a 
Gnumeric spreadsheet import to psppire as what I would term heiroglyphics, 
probably pspp valiantly trying to cope with XML. I see the GET DATA command in 
the pspp syntax has a gnumeric import option, but there doesn't seem to be a 
similar openOffice option. 
Perhaps the way to tackle this is to use a pspp syntax window with "BEGIN DATA" 
and "DATA LIST" or "GET DATA"? (on some sort of .csv or .txt file?) Does pspp 
require each imported datum to be exactly the same length (i.e. same precision)?
A few suggestions to set me on the right track would be helpful as I've run out 
of ideas.
Small sample file attached in case that helps.

NormDataTest.csv
Description: Text Data