 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(“stu.csv”,”w”)- to open the file in write mode
fh=open(“stu.csv”,”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 csv.reader() function
Example: stureader=csv.reader(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:/marks.csv",'r')
csvr = csv.reader(f)
for row in csvr:
print(row)
f.close()

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 Import csv module
* Open csv file in a file handle( just as text file)
Example : fh=open(“stu.csv”,”w”)- to open the file in
write mode
* Create a writer object by using csv.writer() function.
Ex. stuwriter=csv.writer(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 csv.writerow() or csv.writerows()
Ex. stuwriter.writerow(sturec)
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Write to a CSV file

import csv
with open('protagonist.csv', 'w', newline='') as file:
writer = csv.writer(file)
writer.writerow(["SN", "Movie", "Protagonist"])
writer.writerow([1, "Lord of the Rings", "Frodo Baggins"])
writer.writerow([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('protagonist.csv', 'w') as file:
writer = csv.writer(file)
writer.writerows(csv_rowlist)
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