Python import csv to list

Question

I have a CSV file with about 2000 records.

Each record has a string, and a category to it:

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Answer 1

Next is a piece of code which uses csv module but extracts file.csv contents to a list of dicts using the first line which is a header of csv table

import csv
def csv2dicts(filename):
  with open(filename, 'rb') as f:
    reader = csv.reader(f)
    lines = list(reader)
    if len(lines) < 2: return None
    names = lines[0]
    if len(names) < 1: return None
    dicts = []
    for values in lines[1:]:
      if len(values) != len(names): return None
      d = {}
      for i,_ in enumerate(names):
        d[names[i]] = values[i]
      dicts.append(d)
    return dicts
  return None

if __name__ == '__main__':
  your_list = csv2dicts('file.csv')
  print your_list