Python: How to check if cell in CSV file is empty?

Question

I have a CSV file that I\'m reading in Python and I want the program to skip over the row if the first column is empty. How do I do this?

Right now I have:

Answer 1

I tried out what happens if you print and empty row and it returns [] (empty brackets)... so just check for that.

with open('testdata1.csv', 'rU') as csvfile:
    csvreader = csv.reader(csvfile)
    for row in csvreader:
        if row == []:
            continue
        #do stuff normally