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On 4/20/2013 8:34 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
> In 2.x, the csv.reader() class (and csv.DictReader() class) offered
> a .next() method that is absent in 3.x

In Py 3, .next was renamed to .__next__ for *all* iterators. The 
intention is that one iterate with for item in iterable or use builtin 
functions iter() and next().