Delete some rows of a CSV, in-place

Question

This:

import csv
with open('original.csv', 'rb') as inp, open('new.csv', 'wb') as out:
    writer = csv.writer(out)
    for row in csv.reader(inp):
        if row[2] != "0":
            writer.writerow(row)
os.remove('original.csv')
os.rename('new.csv', 'original.csv')

allows to delete certain rows of a CSV.

Is there a more pythonic way to delete some rows of a CSV file, in-place? (instead of creating a file, deleting the original, renaming, etc.)

Answer 1

There isn't a more Pythonic way: you can't delete stuff in the middle of a file. Write out a new file with the stuff you want, and then rename it.