Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch bj_666 at gmx.net
Thu Dec 2 18:44:37 EST 2004

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In <76c29906.0412021521.64ea904f at posting.google.com>, Ramon Felciano
wrote:

> Hi --
> 
> I'm using the csv module to parse a tab-delimited file and wondered
> whether there was a more elegant way to skip an possible header line.
> I'm doing
> 
> 	line = 0
> 	reader = csv.reader(file(filename))
> 	for row in reader:
> 		if (ignoreFirstLine & line == 0):
> 			continue
> 		line = line+1
> 		# do something with row

What about:

  reader = csv.reader(file(filename))
  reader.next()  # Skip header line.
  for row in reader:
      # do something with row

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

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