How do I process this?

[alex23]

On 4/03/2014 2:03 PM, Igor Korot wrote:
> Hi, ALL,
> I have a csv file which depending on how it was produced gives 2
> different strings as shown in the example below (test1 and test2).
> I am only interested in the first field in test1 and obviously in the
> whole string of test2.
>  >>> test1 = "a,,,,"
>  >>> test2 = "a"

Try using the csv module:

     >>> from StringIO import StringIO
     >>> csvfile = StringIO()
     >>> csvfile.write('a,,,,\n')
     >>> csvfile.write('a\n')
     >>> csvfile.seek(0)
     >>>
     >>> import csv
     >>> reader = csv.reader(csvfile)
     >>> [x[0] for x in reader]
     ['a', 'a']