Question

I want to read each column of a csv file and do some modification before storing them into table.

I have a csv files as :

"1";"testOne";"ValueOne"
"2";"testTwo";"ValueTwo"
"3";"testThree";"ValueThree"

Here I want to read the first value “1” and then store it somewhere in a varaible and do something with this value, and similary with the others. However currently I can read the whole file, but could not find the way to access individual columns in a row.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Python has a built-in csv module.

import csv
with open('some.csv', 'rb') as f:
    reader = csv.reader(f, delimiter=';')
    for row in reader:
        print row[0]