[Tutor] reading 2nd line

[Jens Kubieziel]

Hi,

I have here several text files, where I want to read second line of each
file and no idea how to do it. Those files are csv-files exported from MS
Excel and have following format:
    date,open,high,low,close,sales
    01-01-03,11.23,11.24,10.66,10.87,678537

On a shell I would write:
    head -n 2 $FILE | tail -n 1

Can you give me a hint on this?

If I read those line, I want to read out the close price (10.87). My
current solution looks like:

>>> line = "01-01-03,11.23,11.24,10.66,10.87,678537"
>>> single = line.split(",")
>>> print single[4]

Is there a better solution?
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Jens Kubieziel                                  mailto:jens@kubieziel.de
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