From: Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 19:49:10 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: show how easy it is to manipulate individual columns - from a request on
X-Git-Tag: v2.4a2~369
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2b2795ac6d20ad9171eb083a9e3bcf8eeaa4a889;p=python

show how easy it is to manipulate individual columns - from a request on
c.l.py
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libcsv.tex b/Doc/lib/libcsv.tex
index f2dc912bdc..5486cf14a2 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libcsv.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libcsv.tex
@@ -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}