i am newbie at python programming, i have a .csv file containing mac address and signal strength data from an AP consider my csv data is:

i want to get just mac address values which is the 1st row, referring to https://docs.python.org/2/library/csv.html i already tried

import csv
import jsonwith open('DataFTrainBarucp.csv') as csvfile:ader = csv.reader(csvfile)for row in ader:print row[0]

but it will print the first column from my csv, how to get 1st row data, please help

Do you have to use csv? The pandas package has easy to use file reading functions with a usecols option. Try something like:

import pandas as pd
my_data = pd.read_csv('my_data_file', sep=',', header=0, usecols=[0])

numpy file reading functions also have a columns option.