Re: finding out the number of rows in a CSV file [Resolved]

[SimonPalmer]

On Aug 27, 12:50 pm, SimonPalmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 27, 12:41 pm, Jon Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > On Aug 27, 12:29 pm, "Simon Brunning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > > 2008/8/27 SimonPalmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> > > > anyone know how I would find out how many rows are in a csv file?
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> > > > I can't find a method which does this on csv.reader.
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> > > len(list(csv.reader(open('my.csv'))))
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> > > --
> > > Cheers,
> > > Simon B.
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/
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> > Not the best of ideas if the row size or number of rows is large!
> > Manufacture a list, then discard to get its length -- ouch!
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> Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.
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> In my case the number of rows is never going to be that large (<200)
> so it is a practical if slightly inelegant solution

actually not resolved...

after reading the file throughthe csv.reader for the length I cannot
iterate over the rows.  How do I reset the row iterator?
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