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show how easy it is to manipulate individual columns - from a request on
authorSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
Thu, 8 Jul 2004 19:49:10 +0000 (19:49 +0000)
committerSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
Thu, 8 Jul 2004 19:49:10 +0000 (19:49 +0000)
c.l.py

Doc/lib/libcsv.tex

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@@ -319,6 +319,15 @@ for row in reader:
     print row
 \end{verbatim}
 
+To print just the first and last columns of each row try
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+import csv
+reader = csv.reader(file("some.csv", "rb"))
+for row in reader:
+    print row[0], row[-1]
+\end{verbatim}
+
 The corresponding simplest possible writing example is
 
 \begin{verbatim}