Creating a dictionary from a csv file?

Question

I am trying to create a dictionary from a csv file. The first column of the csv file contains unique keys and the second column contains values. Each row of the csv file rep

Answer 1

For simple csv files, such as the following

id,col1,col2,col3
row1,r1c1,r1c2,r1c3
row2,r2c1,r2c2,r2c3
row3,r3c1,r3c2,r3c3
row4,r4c1,r4c2,r4c3

You can convert it to a Python dictionary using only built-ins

with open(csv_file) as f:
    csv_list = [[val.strip() for val in r.split(",")] for r in f.readlines()]

(_, *header), *data = csv_list
csv_dict = {}
for row in data:
    key, *values = row   
    csv_dict[key] = {key: value for key, value in zip(header, values)}

This should yield the following dictionary

{'row1': {'col1': 'r1c1', 'col2': 'r1c2', 'col3': 'r1c3'},
 'row2': {'col1': 'r2c1', 'col2': 'r2c2', 'col3': 'r2c3'},
 'row3': {'col1': 'r3c1', 'col2': 'r3c2', 'col3': 'r3c3'},
 'row4': {'col1': 'r4c1', 'col2': 'r4c2', 'col3': 'r4c3'}}

Note: Python dictionaries have unique keys, so if your csv file has duplicate ids you should append each row to a list.

for row in data:
    key, *values = row

    if key not in csv_dict:
            csv_dict[key] = []

    csv_dict[key].append({key: value for key, value in zip(header, values)})