On 4/03/2014 2:03 PM, Igor Korot wrote:
Hi, ALL,
I have a csv file which depending on how it was produced gives 2
different strings as shown in the example below (test1 and test2).
I am only interested in the first field in test1 and obviously in the
whole string of test2.
>>> test1 = "a,,,,"
>>> test2 = "a"
Try using the csv module:
>>> from StringIO import StringIO
>>> csvfile = StringIO()
>>> csvfile.write('a,,,,\n')
>>> csvfile.write('a\n')
>>> csvfile.seek(0)
>>>
>>> import csv
>>> reader = csv.reader(csvfile)
>>> [x[0] for x in reader]
['a', 'a']
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