quick and smart way for parsing a CSV file?

[achrist at easystreet.com]

Hank wrote:
> 
> 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"
> 


import csv

dicts  		= []

inputFile = open("SomeDurnFileName.csv",  "rb")
parser = csv.reader(inputFile)
firstRec = True
for fields in parser:
	if firstRec:
		fieldNames = fields
		firstRec   = False
	else:
		dicts.append({})
		for i,f in enumerate(fields)
			dicts[-1][fieldNames[i]] = f