Is it possible to use read_csv to read only specific lines?

Question

I have a csv file that looks like this:

TEST  
2012-05-01 00:00:00.203 ON 1  
2012-05-01 00:00:11.203 OFF 0  
2012-05-01 00:00:22.203 ON 1  
2012-05-01 00:00         


        

Answer 1

When you get the row from the csv.reader, and when you can be sure that the first element is a string, then you can use

if not row[0].startswith('TEST'):
    process(row)