Extract csv file specific columns to list in Python

Question

What I\'m trying to do is plot the latitude and longitude values of specific storms on a map using matplotlib,basemap,python, etc. My problem is that I\'m trying to extract

Answer 1

import csv
from sys import argv

d = open("mydata.csv", "r")

db = []

for line in csv.reader(d):
    db.append(line)

# the rest of your code with 'db' filled with your list of lists as rows and columbs of your csv file.