reading csv file without for

Question

I need to read a CSV file in python.

Since for last row I receive a \'NULL byte\' error I would like to avoid using for keyword but the while.

Do you know ho

Answer 1

If your problem is specific to the last line being empty, you can use numpy.genfromtxt (or the old matplotlib.mlab.csv2rec)

$: cat >csv_file.txt
foo,bar,baz
yes,no,0
x,y,z



$:
$: ipython
>>> from numpy import genfromtxt
>>> genfromtxt("csv_file.txt", dtype=None, delimiter=',')
array([['foo', 'bar', 'baz'],
       ['yes', 'no', '0'],
       ['x', 'y', 'z']], 
      dtype='|S3')