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Re: What's the best way to extract 2 values from a CSV file from each row systematically?

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On 2013-09-23, quarantinemiles@gmail.com <quarantinemiles@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I'm a little new to Python, and am still learning!
>
> I'm test building a web scraper that extracts prices from a
> website, based on two values I want to extract from a CSV file.
> The CSV has at least 1000 rows, an example:
>
> 0,0,KGD,0,DME,0,,0,0
>
> The values I want to extract are KGD and DME (columns 3 and 5).

Use the csv module.

http://docs.python.org/2/library/csv.html

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Neil Cerutti

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What's the best way to extract 2 values from a CSV file from each row systematically? quarantinemiles@gmail.com - 2013-09-23 10:10 -0700
  Re: What's the best way to extract 2 values from a CSV file from each row systematically? Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-09-23 17:20 +0000
  Re: What's the best way to extract 2 values from a CSV file from each row systematically? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-09-23 13:25 -0400
  Re: What's the best way to extract 2 values from a CSV file from each row systematically? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-09-23 12:47 -0500
    Re: What's the best way to extract 2 values from a CSV file from each row systematically? Alex Lee <quarantinemiles@gmail.com> - 2013-09-24 07:04 -0700
      Re: What's the best way to extract 2 values from a CSV file from each row systematically? Roland Mueller <roland.em0001@googlemail.com> - 2013-09-27 12:22 +0300
  Re: What's the best way to extract 2 values from a CSV file from each row systematically? Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2013-09-28 03:21 -0700

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