Python - convert csv file to JSON

Question

I need to convert a csv file into a hierarchical JSON object (preferably using Python). I thought that the script I have (below) does a correct job of converting to JSON, bu

Answer 1

Wouldn't this work?

import json

f = open('path/to/file','r')

arr=[]
headers = []

for header in f.readline().split(','):
  headers.append(header)

for line in f.readlines():
  lineItems = {}
  for i,item in enumerate(line.split(',')):  
    lineItems[headers[i]] = item
  arr.append(lineItems)

f.close()

jsonText = json.dumps(arr)

print jsonText