Import csv file into a matrix/Array in Python

Question

I am trying to import big csv files which contain both string and numeric matrix of data into Arrays/matrices in Python. In MATLAB I used to load the file and simply assign

Answer 1

You can use the built-in csv module to load your data to a multidimensional list:

import csv

with open('data.csv', 'rb') as f:
    reader = csv.reader(f)
    data_as_list = list(reader)

print data_as_list
# [['data1', 1],
#  ['data2', 2],
#  ['data3', 3]]