Question

I have a csv file and am trying to get one specific value on, say, line 20, column 3.

But so far, all I managed is to display all values on column 3 (here called “name”).

Here is my Python code

d = DictReader(r.csv().split('\n'))
for line in d:
    score = line["name"]
    print score

How can I display and get the value for only a specific line?

Answer 1

Naive solution:

  target_row = 5
  for num, line in enumerate(d):
      if num == target_row:
          print line["name"]
          break

I removed the intermediate variable score.

Note that this is non-optimal, as you iterate until you reach the desired row, but I don’t know if there is random access to lines in the DictReader.