How to Python3 Import CSV Header to List

Question

I keep seeing examples on the internet on how to import all the CSV into List/Dict/Tuple but none showing how to just import the FIRST ROW ie Header columns into a list.

I have tried doing

import csv
filename = "Example.csv"

columnHeaderList

with open(filename,'r') as data:
    for line in csv.reader(data): 
        columnHeaderList.append(line)
        break

columnHeaderList

which gave a nested list like below:

[0,
 ['Column 1',
  'Column 2',
  'Column 3']]

How do I get it like:

['Column 1', 'Column 2','Column 3']

Feel free to include answers in pandas also

Answer 1

Firstly open your file:-

import pandas as pd
df=pd.read_csv("Example.csv")

Note:- by default seperator is ',' if you have other seperator then pass sep parameter in read_csv() method

just use this:-

df.columns.to_list()