# Your task is to read the input DATAFILE line by line, and for the first 10 lines (not including the header)
# split each line on "," and then for each line, create a dictionary
# where the key is the header title of the field, and the value is the value of that field in the row.
# The function parse_file should return a list of dictionaries,
# each data line in the file being a single list entry.
# Field names and values should not contain extra whitespace, like spaces or newline characters.
# You can use the Python string method strip() to remove the extra whitespace.
# You have to parse only the first 10 data lines in this exercise,
# so the returned list should have 10 entries!
import os
DATADIR = ""
DATAFILE = "beatles-diskography.csv"
def parse_file(datafile):
data = []
with open(datafile, "r") as f:
header=f.readline().split(",")
counter=0
for line in f:
if counter==10:
break
fields=line.split(",")
entry={}
for i,value in enumerate(fields):
entry[header[i].strip()]=value.strip()
data.append(entry)
counter+=1
return data
def test():
# a simple test of your implemetation
datafile = os.path.join(DATADIR, DATAFILE)
d = parse_file(datafile)
firstline = {'Title': 'Please Please Me', 'UK Chart Position': '1', 'Label': 'Parlophone(UK)', 'Released': '22 March 1963', 'US Chart Position': '-', 'RIAA Certification': 'Platinum', 'BPI Certification': 'Gold'}
tenthline = {'Title': '', 'UK Chart Position': '1', 'Label': 'Parlophone(UK)', 'Released': '10 July 1964', 'US Chart Position': '-', 'RIAA Certification': '', 'BPI Certification': 'Gold'}
assert d[0] == firstline
assert d[9] == tenthline
test()
Python string method strip()
will come in handy to get rid of the extra whitespace (that includes newline character at the end of line)