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[Jeff Sandys]

How I read a comma separated values file (*.csv)

#====================== start of code
import string
def trimcr(str):
    if str == '':
        return ''
    if str[-1:] in '\n\r':
        return trimcr(str[:-1])
    else:
        return str
#====================================
class ssrw:
    def __init__(self):
        #---instance variables---
        self.rcdata = []
        self.delim  = ","
        # change to "\t" for tab delimited files
    #===methods==========================
    def read(self,file):
        "reads a file into 'rcdata' parsed by 'delim' string" 
        s = open(file, 'r')
        r = trimcr(s.readline())
        while r <> '':
            self.rcdata.append(string.split(r, self.delim))
            r = trimcr(s.readline())
        s.close()
        #
#======================== end of code

How to use

>>> z = ssrw()
>>> z.read("my.csv")
>>> row1col1 = z.rcdata[1][1]
>>> row1col2 = z.rcdata[1][2]
>>> row2col1 = z.rcdata[2][1]

Thanks,
Jeff Sandys

Xander van Es wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering if it is possible to assign values from a comma seperated
> file to diferent variables.
> so between 2 values there is a comma, and i want to assign those two values
> to two different variables.
> is there a way  i can do that in python??
> 
> Xander