Reading a CSV File

There are two ways to read a CSV file. You can use the csv module’s reader function or you can use the DictReader class. We will look at both methods. But first, we need to get a CSV file so we have something to parse. We’ve already created a data.csv file for you (and uploaded it to Educative’e execution directory) with the following contents

first_name,last_name,address,city,state,zip_code
Tyrese,Hirthe,1404 Turner Ville,Strackeport,NY,19106-8813
Jules,Dicki,2410 Estella Cape Suite 061,Lake Nickolasville,ME,00621-7435
Dedric,Medhurst,6912 Dayna Shoal,Stiedemannberg,SC,43259-2273

Now let’s look at some code