CSV is a simple flat file format used to store tabular data, such as
a spreadsheet or database.
Files in the CSV format can be imported to and exported from
programs that store data in tables, such as Microsoft Excel or
OpenOffice Calc.
CSV stands for "comma-separated values“.
Each line of the file is a data record. Each record consists of one or
more fields, separated by commas. The use of the comma as a field
separator is the source of the name for this file format
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▸ CSV is faster to handle.
• CSV is smaller in size.
• CSV is easy to generate and import onto a
spreadsheet or database.
• CSV is human readable and easy to edit
manually.
• CSV is simple to implement and parse.
• CSV is processed by almost all existing
applications
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Python provides a module to deal with these variations
called the csv module
This module allows you to read spreadsheet info into
our program
We load the module in the usual way using import:
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A CSV file stores tabular data (numbers and text) in plain text.
* Each line of the file is a data record.
* Each record consists of one or more fields, separated by commas.
* CSV files allows to choose a different delimiter character such as
‘\t’, ‘:’ , ‘;’ , ‘|’. but the default delimiter is ‘,’comma.
* To read and write in CSV files we need to import csv module.
* csv module provides two specific objects -reader and writer to read
and write into the file.
* These objects read and write delimited sequence as records
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Opening csv file:
A csv file is opened n the same way as any text file is
opened.
Syntax:
fh=open(“[Link]”,”w”)- to open the file in write mode
fh=open(“[Link]”,”r”)- to open the file in write mode
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* Import csv module
* Open csv file in a file handle
* Create a reader object by using [Link]() function
Example: stureader=[Link](fh)
* using for loop fetch the data from the reader object in
which data is stored in the form of iterable
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import csv
f=open("d:/[Link]",'r')
csvr = [Link](f)
for row in csvr:
print(row)
[Link]()
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Import csv module
* Open csv file in a file handle( just as text file)
Example : fh=open(“[Link]”,”w”)- to open the file in
write mode
* Create a writer object by using [Link]() function.
Ex. stuwriter=[Link](fh)
* Obtain user data and form a Python sequence
(list or tuple) out of it.
Ex. sturec=(11, ‘Neelam’,79.0)
* Write the Python sequence onto the writer object
using [Link]() or [Link]()
Ex. [Link](sturec)
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Write to a CSV file
import csv
with open('[Link]', 'w', newline='') as file:
writer = [Link](file)
[Link](["SN", "Movie", "Protagonist"])
[Link]([1, "Lord of the Rings", "Frodo Baggins"])
[Link]([2, "Harry Potter", "Harry Potter"])
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Writing multiple rows with writerows()
import csv
csv_rowlist = [["SN", "Movie", "Protagonist"],
[1, "Lord of the Rings", "Frodo Baggins"],
[2, "Harry Potter", "Harry Potter"]]
with open('[Link]', 'w') as file:
writer = [Link](file)
[Link](csv_rowlist)
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CSV FILE
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