Separate Rows in reader

[Dave Angel]

On 03/24/2013 04:11 AM, Jiewei Huang wrote:
>
>> <SNIP all those quoted lines doubled by anti-social googlegroups>
>>
>
> Sorry my typo in the output here is the correct output that i need :
>
> [('John Konon', 'Ministry of moon Walks', '4567882', '27-Feb'),
> ( 'Stacy Kisha', 'Ministry of Man Power', '1234567', 17-Jan')]
>
> the difference is that i need a [(row two), (row three), (row fouth)] . I do not want to display row one which is ['Name', ' Address', 'Telephone', 'Birthday']
>

I had to add a delimiter= to accomodate the fact that your data is tab- 
separated.

The first two code sections address the dropping of row-zero.
The third section changes the square brackets to parens, if that's what 
you really wanted.
The fourth section goes all around the barn to get the linefeeds in the 
right place.  There's still one extra space on the first line, but 
that's an exercise for the reader.

run with CPython 2.7.3

import csv

original = [
"Name	 Address	Telephone	Birthday  ",
"John Konon	Ministry of Moon Walks	4567882	27-Feb",
"Stacy Kisha	Ministry of Man Power	1234567	17-Jan"
]

#original = file('friends.csv', 'rU')
reader = csv.reader(original, delimiter="\t")
for index, row in enumerate(reader):
     if index:
         print row
print "-----------"

reader = csv.reader(original, delimiter="\t")
data = list(reader)[1:]
print data
print "-----------"

reader = csv.reader(original, delimiter="\t")
data = [tuple(row) for row in list(reader)[1:]]
print data
print "-----------"

reader = csv.reader(original, delimiter="\t")
data = [tuple(row) for row in list(reader)[1:]]
print "[",
for row in data[:-1]:
     print str(row) + ","
print str(data[-1]) +"]"
print "-----------"


-- 
DaveA