ема с пользовательским итератором в том, что он будет перебирать файл только один раз. я звонюseek(0) на соответствующем объекте файла между итерациями, ноStopIteration бросается при первом вызовеnext() на 2-ом пробеге. Я чувствую, что упускаю из виду что-то очевидное, но был бы рад свежим взглядам на это:

class MappedIterator(object):
    """
    Given an iterator of dicts or objects and a attribute mapping dict, 
    will make the objects accessible via the desired interface.

    Currently it will only produce dictionaries with string values. Can be 
    made to support actual objects later on. Somehow... :D
    """

    def __init__(self, obj=None, mapping={}, *args, **kwargs):

        self._obj = obj
        self._mapping = mapping
        self.cnt = 0

    def __iter__(self):

        return self

    def reset(self):

        self.cnt = 0

    def next(self):

        try:

            try:
                item = self._obj.next()
            except AttributeError:
                item = self._obj[self.cnt]

            # If no mapping is provided, an empty object will be returned.
            mapped_obj = {}

            for mapped_attr in self._mapping:

                attr = mapped_attr.attribute
                new_attr = mapped_attr.mapped_name

                val = item.get(attr, '')
                val = str(val).strip() # get rid of whitespace

                # TODO: apply transformers...

                # This allows multi attribute mapping or grouping of multiple
                # attributes in to one.
                try:
                    mapped_obj[new_attr] += val
                except KeyError:
                    mapped_obj[new_attr] = val

            self.cnt += 1

            return mapped_obj

        except (IndexError, StopIteration):

            self.reset()
            raise StopIteration


class CSVMapper(MappedIterator):

    def __init__(self, reader, mapping={}, *args, **kwargs):

        self._reader = reader
        self._mapping = mapping

        self._file = kwargs.pop('file')

        super(CSVMapper, self).__init__(self._reader, self._mapping, *args, **kwargs)

    @classmethod
    def from_csv(cls, file, mapping, *args, **kwargs):

        # TODO: Parse kwargs for various DictReader kwargs.
        return cls(reader=DictReader(file), mapping=mapping, file=file)

    def __len__(self):

      return int(self._reader.line_num)

    def reset(self):

      if self._file:

        self._file.seek(0)

      super(CSVMapper, self).reset()

Пример использования:

file = open('somefile.csv', 'rb') # say this file has 2 rows + a header row

mapping = MyMappingClass() # this isn't really relevant

reader = CSVMapper.from_csv(file, mapping)

# > 'John'
# > 'Bob'
for r in reader:

  print r['name']

# This won't print anything
for r in reader:

  print r['name']