read specific line in csv file , python

Question

In an CSV file with python we can read all the file line by line or row by row , I want to read specific line (line number 24 example ) without reading all the

Answer 1

Alternatively you can leverage the nrows and skiprows argument in pandas

line_number = 30
pd.read_csv('big.csv.gz', sep = "\t", nrows = 1, skiprows = line_number - 1)

remember skiprows can be a list so if you need the header use

pd.read_csv('big.csv.gz', sep = "\t", nrows = 1, skiprows = list(range(1, line_number - 1)))