Building list of lists from CSV file

Question

I have an Excel file(that I am exporting as a csv) that I want to parse, but I am having trouble with finding the best way to do it. The csv is a list of computers in my net

Answer 1

This is how I opened a .csv file and imported columns of data as numpy arrays - naturally, you don't need numpy arrays, but...

data = {}

app = QApplication( sys.argv )
fname = unicode ( QFileDialog.getOpenFileName() )
app.quit()
filename = fname.strip('.csv') + ' for release.csv'

#open the file and skip the first two rows of data
imported_array = np.loadtxt(fname, delimiter=',', skiprows = 2)

data = {'time_s':imported_array[:,0]}
data['Speed_RPM'] = imported_array[:,1]