Comments on: Parsing CSV data in Python

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:54:23 +0000

This can be simplified to this:

import csv
data = csv.reader(open(‘data.csv’))
# Read the column names from the first line of the file
fields = data.next()
for row in data:
item = dict(zip(fields, row))

By: Peter Ellis

Peter Ellis — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:45:45 +0000

What is the advantage of this over the built-in DictReader class (http://docs.python.org/library/csv.html#csv.DictReader)?

By: Dirkjan Ochtman

Dirkjan Ochtman — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:34:09 +0000

You should use csv.DictReader instead.

By: mishok13

mishok13 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:31:30 +0000

Ehm, I think you didn’t read the doc on csv module before writing that piece of code. Hint: csv.DictReader.