If below two code snippets are giving same results then please let me know what is the advantage of using csv.reader
1)
import csv
f = open('a.csv', 'rb')
spamreader = csv.reader(f)
for a in spamreader:
print a
2)
f = open('a.csv', 'rb')
for a in f:
print a.split(',')
Result:
['SNO', ' Name', ' Dept']
['1', ' Def', ' Electronics']
['2', 'Abc', 'Computers']
In your example, I don't see an advantage of using the csv module. However, things change when you have quoted elements:
SNO,Name,Dept
1,Def,Electronics
2,Abc,Computers
3,"here is the delimiter, in quotes",ghi
With the csv module, it is simply
import csv
with open('a.csv', 'rb') as f:
csv_reader = csv.reader(f, delimiter=',', quotechar='"')
for row in csv_reader:
print(row)
but splitting would ignore the quotes.
(Anyway, I recommend using pandas as shown here for reading CSV files. Please also note that you should close files you've opened. By using the with statement, you can do it implicity.)
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