CSV read specific row

Question

I have a CSV file with 100 rows.

How do I read specific rows?

I want to read say the 9th line or the 23rd line etc?

Answer 1

You could read all of them and then use normal lists to find them.

with open('bigfile.csv','rb') as longishfile:
    reader=csv.reader(longishfile)
    rows=[r for r in reader]
print row[9]
print row[88]

If you have a massive file, this can kill your memory but if the file's got less than 10,000 lines you shouldn't run into any big slowdowns.