Thansk Joel. Thats exactly what I am doing. -A
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Joel Goldstick <joel.goldst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Abhishek Pratap <abhishek....@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hi Joel >> >> Here is a sample >> >> ['1', 'AAAAAAA', '4344', '0.001505'] : want to keep this one >> >> ['#', 'AAAAAAA', '4344', '0.001505'] : and throw this one > > Ok, so you are getting single quotes around your data. So do > row[0].startswith("#") to test your row. > You may be able to test for row[0]=="#" if you always get only the # > in the first position of the row. >> >> >> You are right I am checking after parsing. I dint find an option in >> csv.reader to ignore lines. >> >> -Abhi >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Joel Goldstick >> <joel.goldst...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 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 >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >>>> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >>> >>> 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? >>> > -- > Joel Goldstick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor