read csv file and return dataframe

The csv_module can be used:

import csv
from pprint import pprint
with open('foo.csv', 'rb') as f:
    reader = csv.reader(f)
    headers = reader.next()
    column = {h:[] for h in headers}
    for row in reader:
        for h, v in zip(headers, row):
             column[h].append(v)
    pprint(column) # Pretty printer

that results in:

{'Date': ['2012-06-11',
          '2012-06-12',
          '2012-06-13',
          '2012-06-14',
          '2012-06-15',
          '2012-06-16',
          '2012-06-17'],
 'factor_1': ['1.255', '1.258', '1.249', '1.253', '1.258', '1.263', '1.264'],
 'factor_2': ['1.548', '1.554', '1.552', '1.556', '1.552', '1.558', '1.572'],
 'price': ['1600.20',
           '1610.02',
           '1618.07',
           '1624.40',
           '1626.15',
           '1626.15',
           '1626.15']}

To process with csv files the csv_module can be used:

import csv
with open('some.csv', 'rb') as f:
    reader = csv.reader(f)
    for row in reader:
        print row