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Module 059: Working with Files: CSV

• Phase: 6. Advanced OOP & Errors
• Duration: 1.5 hours

Learning Objectives

• Use the csv module for reading and writing CSV files
• Read CSV data with csv.reader and csv.DictReader
• Write CSV data with csv.writer and csv.DictWriter
• Handle headers, custom delimiters, and quoting
• Convert between CSV rows, lists, and dicts

Topics Covered

• csv.reader: reading rows as lists
• csv.writer: writing lists as rows
• csv.DictReader: reading rows as dicts
• csv.DictWriter: writing dicts as rows
• fieldnames, delimiter, quotechar
• Handling headers automatically

Prerequisites

Module 058: Reading and Writing Text Files

Next Module

Module 060: Milestone Project: Personal Expense Tracker