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Check if csv has header in python

Posted on 31 Aug, 2021
Consider the following csv data
id, name, editor
1, Bhupesh, NeoVim
2, Mark, VSCode
3, Jennifer, JetBrains
1, Banana, 34
2, Apples, 5
3, Orange, 33
4, Mango, 12
The csv.Sniffer class provides a method called has_header which return True if the first row appears to be a header
import csv
csv_with_header = """
id, name, editor
1, Bhupesh, NeoVim
2, Mark, VSCode
3, Jennifer, JetBrains
"""
csv_without_header = """
1, Banana, 34
2, Apples, 5
3, Orange, 33
4, Mango, 12
"""
def has_header(file):
with open(file, 'r') as csvfile:
sniffer = csv.Sniffer()
return sniffer.has_header(csvfile.read())
print(has_header('csv_with_header.csv'))
# true
print(has_header('csv_without_header.csv'))
# false