How to Work with CSV Files in Python: Built-in CSV Module Tutorial

In this video, learn about how you can work with CSV files in Python. This video makes use of CSV module. Earlier video showed how we can make use of split function to work with CSV files, but with that we had to take care of new line character and extra delimiters. However, Python comes with built-in module to work with CSV files. It has csv module that makes it really easy to work with CSV files.

CSV module offers two different methods to write and read csv files. It has reader and writer objects for reading and writing files. In that case, we have to keep track of indices of the columns. Similarly, it offers DictReader and DictWriter objects which are convenient way to write data and read csv files. CSV module also offers several keyword argument to customize the functionality. We can specify delimiter, quote characters as well as many other options.

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[joaorenatinho]

Perfect video, very fast and eficient. Thanks a lot

[Forakt]

This was a nice run-through of CSV-files. Thank you.

[aldairdejesushoyostorres]

Thanks a lot for the explanation. it was very helpful!

[lakshmiyelchuri]

I think so it is a copy of some other video(exact replica)🙄🙄🙄