Separate Rows in reader

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Jiewei Huang於 2013年3月24日星期日UTC+1上午6時20分29秒寫道：
> Hi all,
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> Currently create a simple text-based database of information about people
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> I have a csv file which consist of 3 rows , row 1 2 and 3 is as such:
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> Name	 Address	Telephone	Birthday  
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> John Konon	Ministry of Moon Walks	4567882	27-Feb
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> Stacy Kisha	Ministry of Man Power	1234567	17-Jan
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> My codes are :
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> import csv
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> original = file('friends.csv', 'rU')
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> reader = csv.reader(original)
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> for row in reader:
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>     print row
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> and the output is :
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> ['Name', ' Address', 'Telephone', 'Birthday']
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> ['John Konon', 'Ministry of Moon Walks', '4567882', '27-Feb']
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> ['Stacy Kisha', 'Ministry of Man Power', '1234567', '17-Jan']
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> But i wanted to make it
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> [('John Cleese', 'Ministry of Silly Walks', '5555421', '27-Feb'),
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> ( 'Stacy Kisha', 'Ministry of Man Power', '1234567', 17-Jan')]
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> can someone show me guidance to this issue
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> Thanks all

import csv
original = file('friends.csv', 'rU')
reader = csv.reader(original)
print [tuple(row) for row in reader][1:]

is this you want?
Note that:
    1) I assume your csv file content are seperated by comma
    2) this way allocates your memory, will be a trouble when a big table :P