{"id":12157,"date":"2024-03-14T15:16:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T15:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-read-specific-lines-in-a-csv-file-using-python\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T22:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T22:07:06","slug":"how-to-read-specific-lines-in-a-csv-file-using-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-read-specific-lines-in-a-csv-file-using-python\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Specific CSV Line in Python"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To read specific rows of a CSV file, you can use the reader function from the csv module combined with the enumerate function. 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