How do quickly search through a .csv file in Python

Question

I\'m reading a 6 million entry .csv file with Python, and I want to be able to search through this file for a particular entry.

Are there any tricks to search the en

Answer 1

You can't go directly to a specific line in the file because lines are variable-length, so the only way to know when line #n starts is to search for the first n newlines. And it's not enough to just look for '\n' characters because CSV allows newlines in table cells, so you really do have to parse the file anyway.