9.1.3 Reader Objects

Reader objects (DictReader instances and objects returned by the reader() function) have the following public methods:

next(

)

Return the next row of the reader's iterable object as a list, parsed according to the current dialect.

Reader objects have the following public attributes:

dialect

A read-only description of the dialect in use by the parser.

line_num

The number of lines read from the source iterator. This is not the same as the number of records returned, as records can span multiple lines.

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