pluto.tools.parse_header_comments

pluto.tools.parse_header_comments(filename, comment_char='#')

Parse a file with comments in its header to return the comments and the line number to start reader from.

Parameters

• filename (str) – path to input file

• comment_char (str) – comment character

Returns

• list – a list of comment lines from the file header

• int – the line number on which file data starts (the line after the last comment)

Examples

Example usage:

comments, start_line = parse_header_comments(filename)
with open(portal_file) as fin:
    while start_line > 0:
        next(fin)
        start_line -= 1
    reader = csv.DictReader(fin, delimiter = '  ') # header_line = next(fin)
    portal_lines = [ row for row in reader ]