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Created December 8, 2011 16:27
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I needed a quick and easy way to print specific csv columns for my life on the command line...
#!/usr/bin/env python
import csv
import sys
if 3 > len(sys.argv):
sys.exit("Usage: %s <csv_file> <column_to_print>" % sys.argv[0])
fileparse = csv.reader(open(sys.argv[1]))
for f in fileparse:
print f[int(sys.argv[2])]
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