import csv array = [] with open('13.csv', 'rb') as file: reader = csv.reader(file) for line in reader: array.append(line[0]) summa = 0 for i in range(0, 50): for j in range(0, 100): summa += int(array[j][i]) summa *= 10 sumstr = str(summa) sumlen = len(sumstr) print sumstr[0:10]