On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:57 PM, <m...@doctors.net.uk> wrote: > A rather general question, I'm afraid. I have found myself writing some > python code to handle some CSV data, using the csv. DictReader that generates > a dict for each row with the key as the column heading and the value in the > file as the item. Most operations involve code of the form: (Apologies for > incorrect caps) > > For row in reader: > If row['foo'] == 'something' : > do this etc.
> My other question was about how I do this more efficiently: I don't want to > read the whole thing into memory at once, but (AFAIK) csv.DictReader doesn't > support something like readline() to deliver it one at a time. The loop above does deliver one line worth of data at a time. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
