Why am I getting a string instead of a dictionary while reading a csv file in Python?

Question

I am writing a dictionary in a CSV file using this:

self.idSelf += 1
self.tweet["tweet"] = tweetText
self.tweet["id"] = id
self.tweet["sequence"] = self.idSelf
self.tweet["created_at"] = created_at
with open('#KXIPvMI-2018-05-04.csv', 'a') as csv_file:
     writer = csv.writer(csv_file)
     a = [self.tweet]
     print a[0]['tweet']
     writer.writerow([self.tweet])

While reading this file, I get a list of length = 1. I get the whole dictionary that I saved by writing row = info[0] . But when I get the type(row) , it is str and not the dictionary. Why is that and how can I get the dictionary?

Answer 1

Using csv.DictReader and csv.DictWriter, look at the sample code

import csv

di = {}
di["id"] = 1
di["val"] = "val"

with open("test.csv","a") as csv_file:
    writer = csv.DictWriter(csv_file,di.keys())
    writer.writerow(di)

with open("test.csv") as csv_file:
    reader = csv.DictReader(csv_file,di.keys())
    for row in reader:
        print row["id"]