Hello, I am to extract a csv file from the web and parse it in python and after that make it into an html page.
I want to get the data out of the csv file, get rid of the "," and make it readable. Questions: I would like to be able to print the line I want but I don't know how to do it. I would like to modify some lines, and make them cleaner Can you help me? import urllib, csv url=r"http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~joshua/teaching/cs3101/simpsons_diet.csv" simpsons=urllib.urlopen(url) reader=csv.reader(simpsons,delimiter=',',quotechar='"') a=[] b=[] c=[] d=[] e=[] for char,meal,ate,qty,com in reader: for x in char: a.append(x) for y in meal: b.append(y) for z in ate: c.append(z) for aa in qty: d.append(aa) for bb in com: e.append(bb) for i in range(1::): print a[i]+b[i]+c[i]+d[i]+e[i]
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