Loading the strokes.csv

gistfile1.py

    def load_3d_csv(fname):
        sta = []
        with open(fname, 'rb') as inf:
            rdr = csv.reader(inf, delimiter=';')

            for ix, row in enumerate(rdr):
                try:
                    if ix == 0: header = row
                    else: sta.append({header[y]: eval(row[y]) for y in range(len(row)) if row[y] != ''})
                except SyntaxError as e:
                    logging.error('Problem reading {} at line {}'.format(fname, ix))
                    raise e

        return sta