Python Unicode Dict CSV Reader

gistfile1.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
    unicode_dict_reader
    :copyright: (C) 2013-2015 by Openlabs Technologies & Consulting (P) Limited
    :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
"""
import csv

class UnicodeDictReader(csv.DictReader):
    def __init__(self, csvfile, *args, **kwargs):
        """Allows to specify an additional keyword argument encoding which
        defaults to "utf-8"
        """
        self.encoding = kwargs.pop('encoding', 'utf-8')
        csv.DictReader.__init__(
            self, csvfile, *args, **kwargs
        )

    def next(self):
        rv = csv.DictReader.next(self)
        return dict((
            (k, v.decode(self.encoding).rstrip() if v else v) for k, v in
                rv.iteritems()
        ))