Scoping Question: If else in for loop not evaluating i as expected

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frecords is not necessary as you continually append to frecord. This means that row one is appended to frecords on the first pass. Then row 1 and row 2 are appended to frecords on the second pass, etc., because frecord still has row 1 in it And I assume that this is not all of your code as neither frecord or frecords is declared before the while. Note that you can simplify your code a little with

        if type(cell_value) == type(str()):
            cell_value = cell_value.rstrip()
##            frecord.append(cell_value)
        elif type(cell_value) == type(float()):
            cell_value=int(cell_value)
##            frecord.append(cell_value)
##        else:
        frecord.append(cell_value)