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Compare the headers in 2 csv files with python
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import csv | |
file1 = "fromAbag.csv" | |
file2 = "tazData2010.csv" | |
def sort_lowercase_headers(csvfile): | |
csvreader = csv.reader(csvfile, delimiter=',',quotechar='|') | |
header=csvreader.next() | |
header.sort() | |
header = [x.lower() for x in header] | |
return header | |
# coding: utf-8 | |
import csv | |
with open(file1, 'rb') as csvfile: | |
file1_headers = sort_lowercase_headers(csvfile) | |
with open(file2, 'rb') as csvfile: | |
file2_headers = sort_lowercase_headers(csvfile) | |
print "headers in both files:" | |
print "---------------------" | |
print list(set(file1_headers) & set(file2_headers)) | |
print "" | |
print "headers in {} but not in {}".format(file1,file2) | |
print "---------------------" | |
print '[%s]' % '\n '.join(map(str, list(set(file1_headers) - set(file2_headers)))) | |
print "" | |
print "headers in {} but not in {}".format(file2,file1) | |
print "---------------------" | |
print '[%s]' % '\n '.join(map(str, list(set(file2_headers) - set(file1_headers)))) | |
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