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Error with NULL Bytes? #8

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I'm trying to process a large CSV file with cat in.csv | csvfilter -f 0 > out.csv

Halfway through the file, it fails with this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/csvfilter", line 66, in <module>
    main(options, args)
  File "/usr/local/bin/csvfilter", line 13, in main
    pump(processor, infile, writer)
  File "/usr/local/bin/csvfilter", line 36, in pump
    for output in processor.process(infile):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/csvfilter/__init__.py", line 23, in process
    for row in reader:
_csv.Error: line contains NULL byte

(The line in question contains a very specific DNS record)

Is there a way to get csvfilter to ignore errors like this - or should I pre-emptively correct my .csv files?

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