Python help reading csv file failing due to line-endings

Question

I\'m trying to create this script that will check the computer host name then search a master list for the value to return a corresponding value in the csv file. Then open a

Answer 1

I would populate a dictionary like this:

>>> import csv
>>> name_to_UID = {}
>>> for row in csv.DictReader(open(filename, 'rU'), delimiter='\t'):
    name_to_UID[row['Name']] = row['UID']
>>> name_to_UID['Carmen-Jackson.local']
'carmenj'