Duncan Gibson wrote:
> If I have the following data file, data.csv:
> 1 2 3
> 2 3 4 5
>
> then I can read it in Python 2.4 on linux using:
>
> import csv
> f = file('data.csv', 'rb')
> reader = csv.reader(f)
> for data in reader:
> print data
>
> OK, that's all well and good, but I would like to record
> the line number in the file. According to the documentation,
> each reader object has a public 'line_num' attribute
> http://docs.python.org/lib/node265.html and
> http://docs.python.org/lib/csv-examples.html supports this.
>
> If I now change the loop to read:
>
> for data in reader:
> print reader.line_num, data
>
> I'm presented with the error:
> AttributeError: '_csv.reader' object has no attribute 'line_num'
The line_num attribute is new in Python 2.5. This is a doc bug, it
should be noted in the description of line_num.
Kent
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