[Tutor] mapping header row to data rows in file

[Peter Otten]

eryksun wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:
>>
>> I'd prefer a csv.reader(), and if you have control over the table format
>> you should remove the extra whitespace in the source data.
> 
> Say you AA.csv opened as f:
> 
>     >>> import csv
>     >>> reader = csv.DictReader(f, skipinitialspace=1)
> 
>     >>> next(reader)
>     {'Date': '22-Nov-2012', 'Series': 'EQ', 'Symbol': 'STER',
>     {'Prev_Close': '9'}
>     >>> next(reader)
>     {'Date': '29-Nov-2012', 'Series': 'EQ', 'Symbol': 'STER',
> 'Prev_Close': '10'}
> 
> and so on.

>From your previous posts I got the impression that I need to read the source 
some more ;) 

Now I'll have to extend that on the docs. And it is not even a new 
feature...

Thanks for the update.