python csv reader skip header code example

Example 1: skip header in csv python

with open(filename) as newfile:
    rows = csv.reader(newfile)
    next(rows,None)
    for row in rows:
      print(row)

Example 2: python csv reader skip header

with open("tmob_notcleaned.csv", "rb") as infile, open("tmob_cleaned.csv", "wb") as outfile:
   reader = csv.reader(infile)
   next(reader, None)  # skip the headers
   writer = csv.writer(outfile)
   for row in reader:
       # process each row
       writer.writerow(row)

# no need to close, the files are closed automatically when you get to this point.

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