CSV with comments
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skip at pobox.com
Tue Jul 18 15:34:28 EDT 2006
>> In csv.reader, is there any way of skip lines that start whith '#' or
>> empty lines
Nope. When we wrote the module we weren't aware of any "spec" that
specified comments or blank lines. You can easily write a file wrapper to
filter them out though:
class BlankCommentCSVFile:
def __init__(self, fp):
self.fp = fp
def __iter__(self):
return self
def next(self):
line = self.fp.next()
if not line.strip() or line[0] == "#":
return self.next()
return line
Use it like so:
reader = csv.reader(BlankCommentCSVFile(open("somefile.csv")))
for row in reader:
print row
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