Re: Pythonic use of CSV module to skip headers?

Michael Hoffman Sat, 04 Dec 2004 07:05:03 -0800

Skip Montanaro wrote:

I'm not sure what the use of TABs as delimiters has to do with the OP's
problem.

Not much. :) I just happen to use tabs more often than commas, so my subclass defaults to

You can create a subclass of DictReader that plucks the first line out as a
set of titles:

    class SmartDictReader(csv.DictReader):
        def __init__(self, f, *args, **kwds):
            rdr = csv.reader(*args, **kwds)
            titles = rdr.next()
            csv.DictReader.__init__(self, f, titles, *args, **kwds)

Is that what you were suggesting?


Exactly.

I don't find the couple extra lines of
code in my original example all that cumbersome to type though.

If you started about half of the programs you write with those extra lines, you might <wink>. I'm a strong believer in OnceAndOnlyOnce.

Thanks to Nick Coghlan for pointing out that I no longer need do this in Python 2.4. -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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