convert csv file to list of dictionaries

Question

I have a csv file

col1, col2, col3
1, 2, 3
4, 5, 6

I want to create a list of dictionary from this csv.

output as :

Answer 1

Well, while other people were out doing it the smart way, I implemented it naively. I suppose my approach has the benefit of not needing any external modules, although it will probably fail with weird configurations of values. Here it is just for reference:

a = []
with open("csv.txt") as myfile:
    firstline = True
    for line in myfile:
        if firstline:
            mykeys = "".join(line.split()).split(',')
            firstline = False
        else:
            values = "".join(line.split()).split(',')
            a.append({mykeys[n]:values[n] for n in range(0,len(mykeys))})