quick and smart way for parsing a CSV file?

[Hank]

Hi, 

I have a CSV file from excel that looks like this (simplified):

name,description,type1,type2,name,filename
test1,this is a test,0.000,1.000,,
test2,another test,1.000,0.000,newname,filename
test3,this is a test,0.000,1.000,,
test4,this is a test,0.000,1.000,,
test5,this is a test,0.000,1.000,,
test6,this is a test,0.000,1.000,,



what i want at the end is a dictionary like

dict1[name] = test1
dict1[description] = "this is a test"
.
.
.
dict2[name] = test2
dict2[description] = "another test"

whats a fast and quick way of parsing it? Look for the first comma,
strip that entry out of the string, keep going? Thought there might be
some shortcuts.

Thanks