Reading a CSV file

example.py

"""
More documenation about the csv moodule at https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html
"""

import csv

# the path to the file is relative to where you execute the python command
# both this file and the test.csv file should be in the same directory/folder
# you should run the command `python example.py` (without the backticks `) from the directory that contains example.py
with open('test.csv') as csvfile:
    row_reader = csv.reader(csvfile)
    # row_reader reads each row of your csv file
    for row in row_reader:
        print(row)

"""
Outputs

['col-a', 'col-b']
['value-a', 'value-b']

"""

test.csv