Reading rows from a CSV file in Python

Question

I have a CSV file, here is a sample of what it looks like:

Year:  Dec: Jan:
1      50   60
2      25   50
3      30   30
4      40   20
5      10   10
         


        

Answer 1

Use the csv module:

import csv

with open("test.csv", "r") as f:
    reader = csv.reader(f, delimiter="\t")
    for i, line in enumerate(reader):
        print 'line[{}] = {}'.format(i, line)

Output:

line[0] = ['Year:', 'Dec:', 'Jan:']
line[1] = ['1', '50', '60']
line[2] = ['2', '25', '50']
line[3] = ['3', '30', '30']
line[4] = ['4', '40', '20']
line[5] = ['5', '10', '10']