[Tutor] newb help reading lines from csv

[Joel Goldstick]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Dewhirst, Rob <robdewhirst at gmail.com> wrote:
> import csv
> ifile = open('test.csv', "r")
> reader = csv.reader(ifile)
> for row in reader:
>         print row
> for row in reader:
>         print row
> ifile.close()
>
> This is a simplified version of what I am trying to do - loop through
> a CSV file twice.  Why does the second for loop not execute at all?
> The first one prints the rows of the file just fine.
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You need to close the file and re open to iterate again.  You can't
reset the iterator back to the beginning without closing and
re-opening

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Joel Goldstick