Read specific columns from a csv file with csv module?

Question

I\'m trying to parse through a csv file and extract the data from only specific columns.

Example csv:

ID | N         


        

Answer 1

You can use numpy.loadtext(filename). For example if this is your database .csv:

ID | Name | Address | City | State | Zip | Phone | OPEID | IPEDS |
10 | Adam | 130 W.. | Mo.. | AL... | 3.. | 334.. | 01023 | 10063 |
10 | Carl | 130 W.. | Mo.. | AL... | 3.. | 334.. | 01023 | 10063 |
10 | Adolf | 130 W.. | Mo.. | AL... | 3.. | 334.. | 01023 | 10063 |
10 | Den | 130 W.. | Mo.. | AL... | 3.. | 334.. | 01023 | 10063 |

And you want the Name column:

import numpy as np 
b=np.loadtxt(r'filepath\name.csv',dtype=str,delimiter='|',skiprows=1,usecols=(1,))

>>> b
array([' Adam ', ' Carl ', ' Adolf ', ' Den '], 
      dtype='|S7')

More easily you can use genfromtext:

b = np.genfromtxt(r'filepath\name.csv', delimiter='|', names=True,dtype=None)
>>> b['Name']
array([' Adam ', ' Carl ', ' Adolf ', ' Den '], 
      dtype='|S7')