[Tutor] [EXTERNAL] Re: Help Please

[Mario Ontiveros]

Thanks Alex,
This helped.

Mario Ontiveros



-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Kleider [mailto:akleider at sonic.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 10:20 PM
To: Mario Ontiveros
Cc: tutor at python.org; Tutor
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Tutor] Help Please

On 2019-02-20 06:30, Mario Ontiveros wrote:
> Hello,
>     I am new to python and have been stuck on this for a while. What I
> am trying to do is to remove rows with void, disconnected, and error
> on lines. The code I have does that, the only problem is that it
> removes my header because void is in header. I need to keep header.
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> with open("PSS.csv","r+") as f:
>     new_f = f.readlines()
>     f.seek(0)
>     for line in new_f:
>         if "Void" not in line:
>             if "Disconnected" not in line:
>                 if "Error" not in line:
>                  f.write(line)
>     f.truncate()
> 
> 
> 
> Mario Ontiveros

Since your file seems to be a csv file, can we assume your 'header' line 
is really a comma separated list of column names?

If so, then using the csv module and specifically csv.DictReader (+/- 
DictWriter) might make things easier for you.


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