Read specific columns in csv using python

Question

I have a csv file that look like this:

+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
| AAA | bbb | ccc | DDD | eee | FFF | GGG | hhh |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+---         


        

Answer 1

I realize the answer has been accepted, but if you really want to read specific named columns from a csv file, you should use a DictReader (if you're not using Pandas that is).

import csv
from StringIO import StringIO

columns = 'AAA,DDD,FFF,GGG'.split(',')


testdata ='''\
AAA,bbb,ccc,DDD,eee,FFF,GGG,hhh
1,2,3,4,50,3,20,4
2,1,3,5,24,2,23,5
4,1,3,6,34,1,22,5
2,1,3,5,24,2,23,5
2,1,3,5,24,2,23,5
'''

reader = csv.DictReader(StringIO(testdata))

desired_cols = (tuple(row[col] for col in columns) for row in reader)

Output:

>>> list(desired_cols)
[('1', '4', '3', '20'),
 ('2', '5', '2', '23'),
 ('4', '6', '1', '22'),
 ('2', '5', '2', '23'),
 ('2', '5', '2', '23')]