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KeironO
KeironO

Reputation: 179

Comparing and removing rows of CSV file in python?

I have a csv file that looks something similar to this.

"title","keep","get_rid","keep","rubbish"
"hello_world",1,0,0,0
"goodbye_world",0,0,1,0
"to_string",1,0,1,0
"not_so_smart",1,0,0,0

The goal is to remove the columns of which do not contain an instance of 1. So in this example, "get-rid" and "rubbish" will be removed - leaving us with something like...

"title","keep", "keep"
"hello_world",1,0
"goodbye_world",0,1
"to_string",1,1
"not_so_smart",1,0

However, I have somehow struggled to perform what seemed to be initially a simple problem.

My failed solution currently looks like this...

with open("filename.csv", "rb") as file:
reader = csv.reader(file)
header = next(reader)
for i, columns in enumerate(reader):
    for j, rows in enumerate(columns):
        if "1" not in rows[1:]:

Which isn't working as expected. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 39

Answers (1)

zlc1994
zlc1994

Reputation: 33

the 1 should be str type, but not the int type. 

if '1' not in columns

Upvotes: 1

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