csv reading fields

[Mark F]

Thanks,
 could have sworn I tried that.

-Mark

"Nick Smallbone" <nick at nick8325.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "Mark F" <mfaine-usenet at knology.net> wrote in message
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> > To say I'm a python newbie would be an understatement but I think it is
a
> > language worth learning and would make a great replacement for perl in
our
> > shop.
> >
> > I'm trying to read a CSV file using the python csv module but I can't
seem
> > to determine how to use the API, it seems to me that I can do nothing
more
> > than opening the file and printing the lines of the file.  I can do that
> > without the CSV module.  I need to know how to address individual
fields.
> >
> > Something like this: (not actual python code)
> >
> >
> > import csv
> > reader = csv.reader(file("some.csv"))
> > for row in reader:
> >     print row.field(3)    or import csv
> > reader = csv.reader(file("some.csv"))
> >     if reader.field(2,1) == "test.zip":        print "test.zip exists"
> > Thanks,-Mark
> >
>
> How about:
>
> import csv
> reader = csv.reader(file("some.csv"))
> for row in reader:
>     print row[3]
>
> Nick
>
>




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