High level csv reader

James Stroud jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu
Wed Nov 1 04:34:17 EST 2006


George Sakkis wrote:
> It occured to me that most times I read a csv file, I'm often doing
> from scratch things like assigning labels to columns, mapping fields to
> the appropriate type, ignoring some fields, changing their order, etc.
> Before I go on and reinvent the wheel, is there a generic high level
> wrapper around csv.reader that does all this ?
> 
> Thanks,
> George
> 

There is a csv in the standard library. Though many of us don't mind 
answering questions like this, you can get a lot of answers quicker by 
(1) looking to see what's in the standard library and (2) using google.

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-csv.html

James



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