On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Abhishek Pratap <abhishek....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> I am wondering if there is a keyword to ignore certain lines ( for eg
> lines starting with # ) when I am reading them through stl module csv.
>
> Example code:
>
> input_file = sys.argv[1]
> csv.register_dialect('multiplex_info',delimiter=' ')
>
> with open(input_file, 'rb') as fh:
>    reader= csv.reader(fh,'multiplex_info')
>    for row in reader:
>        print row
>
>
> best,
> -Abhi
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You could look up the docs for csv.reader, but if there isn't, in your
for loop you can use row[0].startswith('"#")  to check if your line
starts with #.
Can you show what the row looks like?

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Joel Goldstick
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