Question

I would like to print (stdout) the first two lines of a csv file:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import csv
afile = open('<directory>/*.csv', 'r+')
csvReader1 = csv.reader(afile)
for row in csvReader1:
    print row[0]
    print row[1]

however, my output using this code print the first two columns.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You want to print a row, but your code asks to print the first and second members of each row

Since you want to print the whole row – you can simply print it, and in addition, only read the first two

#!/usr/bin/env python
import csv
afile = open('<directory>/*.csv', 'r+')
csvReader1 = csv.reader(afile)
for i in range(2):
    print csvReader1.next()