Costin Gamenț wrote: > Hi, I am trying to read a string as csv, but I encountered an odd > problem. Here's my code: > > csvfile = csv.reader(datastr.split('\n'), delimiter=';') > r = '' > for i in csvfile: > for j in i: > print j > print i[0] > > the "print j" statement works, but "print i[0]" returns "IndexError: > list index out of range". Am I missing something?
Change print i[0] to print i You'll see that there are empty rows in your data. You cannot detect these rows with for j in i: print j because you get zero iterations, i. e. the print j statement is never executed for these rows. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list