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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:18:13 -0400
From: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
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On 04/23/2013 06:40 PM, Ana Dionísio wrote:
> The condition I want to meet is in the first column, so is there a way to read only the first column and if the condition is true, print the rest?
>

The CSV module will read a row at a time, but nothing gets printed till 
you print it.  So starting with Dan's code,

row[0] is column one of a given row, while row[1] is the next column, 
and so on.

import csv

def main():
     with open('test.csv', 'r') as file_:
         for row in csv.reader(file_, delimiter="|"):
             if row[0] == "special":
                 print row[1:]     #print columns starting at the second


-- 
DaveA