How to read a CSV File delimited by '\x01' and create a dictionary in python

Question

I have a requirement to read a CSV file which is \\x01 (^A) delimited and create a dictionary for my lookup for processing my business logic further. My input file

Answer 1

You can register a custom dialect that uses that character as a separator as seen in this answer.

import csv

class custom_sep(csv.excel):
    delimiter = chr(0x01)
csv.register_dialect("custom_sep", custom_sep)

data = """col1\x01col2\x01col3
foo\x01bar\x01baz
moo\x01mee\x01mah"""

data = csv.DictReader((x.strip() for x in data.split('\n')), dialect="custom_sep")
for row in data:
    print row