new_contents: # file: csvcolumn.py
  # vim:fileencoding=utf-8:ft=python
  #
  # Author: R.F. Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
  # Created: 2016-03-19 12:42:04 +0100
  # Last modified: 2016-03-19 13:00:02 +0100
  #
  # To the extent possible under law, R.F. Smith has waived all copyright and
  # related or neighboring rights to csvcolumn.py. This work is published
  # from the Netherlands. See http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
  
  """Prints a single column from a CSV file."""
  
  import csv
  import sys
  import argparse
  
  __version__ = '0.1.0'
  
  
  def getdata(fn, colnum, delim=';'):
      data = []
      with open(fn) as df:
          for num, row in enumerate(csv.reader(df, delimiter=delim)):
              if len(row) > colnum:
                  data.append((num, row[colnum]))
      return data
  
  
  parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
  parser.add_argument('-v', '--version', action='version',
                      version=__version__)
  parser.add_argument('-d', '--delimiter', default=';',
                      help="delimiter to use (defaults to ';')")
  parser.add_argument('column', type=int,
                      help='number of the column to print (starts at 0)')
  parser.add_argument('path', type=str,
                      help='path of the file to process')
  args = parser.parse_args(sys.argv[1:])
  results = getdata(args.path, args.column, args.delimiter)
  for n, d in results:
      print("row {:2d}: '{}'".format(n, d))
  
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