How do I read and write CSV files with Python?

Question

I have a file example.csv with the contents

1,\"A towel,\",1.0
42,\" it says, \",2.0
1337,is about the most ,-1
0,massively useful thing ,123
-2         


        

Answer 1

import csv
with open(fileLocation+'example.csv',newline='') as File: #the csv file is stored in a File object

    reader=csv.reader(File)       #csv.reader is used to read a file
    for row in reader:
        print(row)