CSV without first line?

[Steve Holden]

Sebastian Bassi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In my CSV file, the first line has the name of the variables. So the
> data I want to parse resides from line 2 up to the end. Here is what I
> do:
> 
> import csv
> lines=csv.reader(open("MYFILE"))
> lines.next() #this is just to avoid the first line
> for line in lines:
>     DATA PARSING
> 
> This works fine. But I don't like to do "lines.next()" just to get rid
> of the first line. So I wonder if the reader function on the csv
> module has something that could let me parse the file from the second
> line (w/o doing that lines.next()).
> 
> 
That's a perfectly legitimate thing to do, so don't worry about it.

If it makes you feel better you could use the Sniffer class's 
has_header() method.

regards
  Steve
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