Question

When I’m moving through a file with a csv.reader, how do I return to the top of the file. If I were doing it with a normal file I could just do something like ‘file.seek(0)’. Is there anything like that for the csv module?

Thanks ahead of time 😉

Answer 1

You can seek the file directly. For example:

>>> f = open('csv.txt') >>> c = csv.reader(f) >>> for row in c: print row ['1', '2', '3'] ['4', '5', '6'] >>> f.seek(0) >>> for row in c: print row   # again ['1', '2', '3'] ['4', '5', '6']