Pythonic use of CSV module to skip headers?
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
bj_666 at gmx.net
Thu Dec 2 18:44:37 EST 2004
In <76c29906.0412021521.64ea904f at posting.google.com>, Ramon Felciano
wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I'm using the csv module to parse a tab-delimited file and wondered
> whether there was a more elegant way to skip an possible header line.
> I'm doing
>
> line = 0
> reader = csv.reader(file(filename))
> for row in reader:
> if (ignoreFirstLine & line == 0):
> continue
> line = line+1
> # do something with row
What about:
reader = csv.reader(file(filename))
reader.next() # Skip header line.
for row in reader:
# do something with row
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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