FW: Reading a remove csv file

[ROGER GRAYDON CHRISTMAN]

I have a partial answer to my own question:
This seems to work for me:

---
link = urllib.request.urlopen(urlpath)
data = link.read().decode('utf-8').split('\n')

reader = csv.DictReader(data)
for row in reader:
---

I think here my concern is that now 'data' is now a variable
in my program's memory (all of the data),
instead of streamlike.   I suppose I did read
somewhere about setting a stream option.

Roger Christman
Pennsylvania State University

---------------- Forwarded Message ----------------


 Just a quick question on how best to read a remote CSV
file.


So far, I
tried:




filelink =
urllib.request.urlopen(path)


dictread =
csv.DictReader(filelink)


for row in
dictread:
    ...


But I'm running
into the difference between strings and bytes.


I'd
like to squeeze a note that talks about the utf-8
encoding,


but although I find that as an option for a
local file (with open())


I did not see that on my
first glance at the two functions
above.




Is there an easy way to read a
remove CSV file with utf-8 encoding


without copying
the whole file locally first?




Roger
Christman


Pennsylvania State University