Converting csv file to dictionary

Question

I asked this question yesterday but am still stuck on it. I\'ve written a function that currently reads a file correctly but there are a couple of problems.

The main

Answer 1

You just want this:

def read_file(filename):
    with open(filename, "r") as thefile:
        mydict = convertLines(thefile.readlines()))
        return mydict

your current function is infinitely calling itself... Then fix your convertLines function if it needs to.

Answer 2

This should simplify your code a bit, however I have left dealing with the header row up to you.

from collections import defaultdict
import csv

artists = defaultdict(list)

with open('artists.csv', 'r') as csvfile:
    reader = csv.reader(csvfile,delimiter=',')
    for row in reader:
        artists[row[0]].append(row[1:-1])