Load a unicode csv file from an url

remote_csv.py

import unicodecsv # pip install unicodecsv
import urllib2

def loadfile(url, delimiter=","):
    """Loads a file from a URL (a csv one), separated with delimiter
    returns an array with the contents of the file.
    """
    reader = unicodecsv.reader(
        urllib2.urlopen(url),
        encoding='utf-8',
        delimiter=delimiter
    )
    answer = []
    for row in reader:
        newrow = []
        for item in row:
            newrow.append(item.strip())
        answer.append(newrow)

    return answer