How to display a data parsed from csv file through a link using Python

Question

I read a csv file from a link :

csv file format looks like this when I open it on text editor.

name, id, age, city
,steve, 1, 34, NY
,Rob, 2, 29, NY
,Ashly, 3, 28, NY

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#!/usr/bin/python

url = 'http://domainname.com/file.csv'
response = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
output   = StringIO.StringIO(response)

cr       = csv.reader((line.replace('NUL','') for line in output), delimiter=",")

when I iterate over the cr using

for row in cr:
    print row

I get this output which is diferent than the actual file data.

['\x1b']
['^']
['\xd3']
['\xd4']
['\xe7']
['\x88']
['\xf7']

Answer 1

I have tried your code with a csv file from link mentioned below and everything is working perfectly fine. All the rows are printing correctly that means csv file is correctly received from url.

import urllib2
import StringIO
import csv


url = "http://www.andrewpatton.com/countrylist.csv"
response = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
output   = StringIO.StringIO(response)

cr       = csv.reader((line.replace('NUL','') for line in output), delimiter=",")

for row in cr:
        print row