Reading a CSV file into a list of dictionaries

[John Machin]

Laurent RAHUEL wrote:
> RFQ wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi, I'm struggling here to do the following with any success:
>>
>>I have a comma delimited file where each line in the file is something
>>like:
>>
>>PNumber,3056,Contractor,XYZ Contracting,Architect,ABC Architects,...
> 
> 
> This is NOT a CSV file. A CSV file would be :
> 
> PNumber,Contractor,Architect,...
> 2056,XYZ Contracting,ABC Architects,...
> 

CSV is an acronym for "Comma-Separated Values". It does not imply 
anything about the contents of the fields. The OP's file *is* a CSV 
file. Yes, the contents do represent an unusual application of the CSV 
format -- however a bus full of parcels instead of people is still a bus.

> Then, you could use the built-in CSV module of recent python versions.

Python is a case-sensitive language. The name of the module is "csv". 
The OP could use the csv module with his data.