Pythonic use of CSV module to skip headers?

[Michael Hoffman]

Skip Montanaro wrote:

> Assuming the header line has descriptive titles, I prefer the DictReader
> class.  Unfortunately, it requires you to specify the titles in its
> constructor.  My usual idiom is the following:

I deal so much with tab-delimited CSV files that I found it useful to 
create a subclass of csv.DictReader to deal with this, so I can just write:

for row in tabdelim.DictReader(file(filename)):
     ...

I think this is a lot easier than trying to remember this cumbersome 
idiom every single time.
-- 
Michael Hoffman