Reading a CSV file into a list of dictionaries

RFQ rfquerin at gmail.com
Mon Jun 6 13:13:58 EDT 2005


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,...

So each line is intended to be: key1,value1,key2,value2,key3,value3...
and each line is to be variable in length (although it will have to be
an even number of records so that each key has a value).

I want to read in this csv file and parse it into a list of
dictionaries. So each record in the list is a dictionary:

{"PNumber":"3056","Contractor":"XYZ Contracting", ... }

I have no problem reading in the CSV file to a list and splitting each
line in the file into its comma separated values. But I can't figure
out how to parse each resulting list into a dictionary.

Any help on this?




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