Pythonic use of CSV module to skip headers?

[Ramon Felciano]

Hi --

I'm using the csv module to parse a tab-delimited file and wondered
whether there was a more elegant way to skip an possible header line.
I'm doing

line = 0
reader = csv.reader(file (filename))
for row in reader:
if (ignoreFirstLin e & line == 0):
continue
line = line+1
# do something with row

The only thing I could think of was to specialize the default reader
class with an extra skipHeaderLine constructor parameter so that its
next() method can skip the first line appropriate. Is there any other
cleaner way to do it w/out subclassing the stdlib?

Thanks!

Ramon

[Steve Holden]

Re: Pythonic use of CSV module to skip headers?

Ramon Felciano wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hi --
>
> I'm using the csv module to parse a tab-delimited file and wondered
> whether there was a more elegant way to skip an possible header line.
> I'm doing
>
> line = 0
> reader = csv.reader(file (filename))
> for row in reader:
> if (ignoreFirstLin e & line == 0):
> continue
> line = line+1
> # do something with row
>
> The only thing I could think of was to specialize the default reader
> class with an extra skipHeaderLine constructor parameter so that its
> next() method can skip the first line appropriate. Is there any other
> cleaner way to do it w/out subclassing the stdlib?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ramon[/color]

How about

line = 0
reader = csv.reader(file (filename))
headerline = reader.next()
for row in reader:
line = line+1
# do something with row

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Steve
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[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

Re: Pythonic use of CSV module to skip headers?

In <76c29906.04120 21521.64ea904f@ posting.google. com>, Ramon Felciano
wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hi --
>
> I'm using the csv module to parse a tab-delimited file and wondered
> whether there was a more elegant way to skip an possible header line.
> I'm doing
>
> line = 0
> reader = csv.reader(file (filename))
> for row in reader:
> if (ignoreFirstLin e & line == 0):
> continue
> line = line+1
> # do something with row[/color]

What about:

reader = csv.reader(file (filename))
reader.next() # Skip header line.
for row in reader:
# do something with row

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch