Improving code written in order to reduce verbosity and perhaps use a decorator?

[kbtyo]

Hello everyone:

A member on the Stack Overflow community advised me to post my question on this forum:

http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/116395/opening-the-same-csv-file-in-two-different-ways-in-order-to-transform-data-in-on

I appreciate your feedback immensely. 

Sincerely,
Saran