import csv
filename = "a directory path to csv file"
def scoPy_read_csv_as_list(filename, delimiter=',', encoding = None):
""" Reads a given CSV file and returns it as a list containing all rows as list with encoding=utf-8. """
file = open(filename, 'r', encoding='utf-8')
csvfile = csv.reader(file, delimiter=delimiter)
output = []
for row in csvfile:
output.append(row)
file.close()
print(output)
return output[1:] # row 1 del