how to skip blank line while reading CSV file using python

Question

This is my code i am able to print each line but when blank line appears it prints ; because of CSV file format, so i want to skip when blank line appears

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Answer 1

This example just prints the data in array form while skipping the empty lines:

import csv

file = open("data.csv", "r")
data = csv.reader(file)

for line in data:
    if line: print line

file.close()

I find it much clearer than the other provided examples.

Answer 2

If you want to skip all whitespace lines, you should use this test: ' '.isspace().

Since you may want to do something more complicated than just printing the non-blank lines to the console(no need to use CSV module for that), here is an example that involves a DictReader:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Tested with Python 2.7

# I prefer this style of importing - hides the csv module
# in case you do from this_file.py import * inside of __init__.py
import csv as _csv


# Real comments are more complicated ...
def is_comment(line):
    return line.startswith('#')


# Kind of sily wrapper
def is_whitespace(line):
    return line.isspace()


def iter_filtered(in_file, *filters):
    for line in in_file:
        if not any(fltr(line) for fltr in filters):
            yield line


# A dis-advantage of this approach is that it requires storing rows in RAM
# However, the largest CSV files I worked with were all under 100 Mb
def read_and_filter_csv(csv_path, *filters):
    with open(csv_path, 'rb') as fin:
        iter_clean_lines = iter_filtered(fin, *filters)
        reader = _csv.DictReader(iter_clean_lines, delimiter=';')
        return [row for row in reader]


# Stores all processed lines in RAM
def main_v1(csv_path):
    for row in read_and_filter_csv(csv_path, is_comment, is_whitespace):
        print(row)  # Or do something else with it


# Simpler, less refactored version, does not use with
def main_v2(csv_path):
    try:
        fin = open(csv_path, 'rb')
        reader = _csv.DictReader((line for line in fin if not
                                  line.startswith('#') and not line.isspace()),
                                  delimiter=';')
        for row in reader:
            print(row)  # Or do something else with it
    finally:
        fin.close()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    csv_path = "C:\Users\BKA4ABT\Desktop\Test_Specification\RDBI.csv"
    main_v1(csv_path)
    print('\n'*3)
    main_v2(csv_path)