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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 01:46:49 -0400
From: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
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On 03/24/2013 01:20 AM, Jiewei Huang wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Currently create a simple text-based database of information about people
>
>
> I have a csv file which consist of 3 rows , row 1 2 and 3 is as such:
> Name	 Address	Telephone	Birthday
> John Konon	Ministry of Moon Walks	4567882	27-Feb
> Stacy Kisha	Ministry of Man Power	1234567	17-Jan
>
>
> My codes are :
> import csv
> original = file('friends.csv', 'rU')
> reader = csv.reader(original)
>
> for row in reader:
>
>      print row
>
>
> and the output is :
> ['Name', ' Address', 'Telephone', 'Birthday']
> ['John Konon', 'Ministry of Moon Walks', '4567882', '27-Feb']
> ['Stacy Kisha', 'Ministry of Man Power', '1234567', '17-Jan']
>
> But i wanted to make it
>
> [('John Cleese', 'Ministry of Silly Walks', '5555421', '27-Feb'),
> ( 'Stacy Kisha', 'Ministry of Man Power', '1234567', 17-Jan')]
>
> can someone show me guidance to this issue
>
> Thanks all
>

There are at least 3 differences to the printouts.  Which difference are 
you concerned with?

1) Moon --> Silly
2) square and round brackets in slightly different places
3) row 0 suppressed

Explain which one, or specify a fourth, and also what you have tried to 
address the question.


-- 
DaveA