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CSV utils

Author: Marius Moldovan

The CSV Utils Module provides an easy adn efficient way to interact with CSV files.

Overview​

  1. read_csv_data: Reads data from a CSV file and returns it as a list of dictionaries

Classes and Functions​

Function: read_csv_data(file_path)​

Read data from a CSV file and return a list of dictionaries.

Params:

  • file_path (str): Path to the CSV file.

Returns:

  • List[Dict[str, str]]:: List of dictionaries containing the CSV data. Each element of the list contains the data of one row of the CSV file.

Behavior:

  1. Opens the CSV file in read mode with UTF-8 encoding.
  2. Uses csv.DictReader to read the csv file content and map every row to a dictionary
  3. Appends each dictionary to a list, which is then returned

Example Usage:

from csv_utils import read_csv_data

file_path = "example.csv"
data = read_csv_data(file_path)

for row in data:
    print(row)