A small standard-library CSV quality check with a reproducible synthetic example.
AI disclosure: This article was prepared with AI assistance and reviewed against the runnable sample and its reproducibility test.
CSV quality problems often appear before a full validation framework is necessary. A quick first pass can answer three useful questions:
How many rows did we receive?
Are IDs duplicated?
Which columns contain blank cells?
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