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Sibylle Koczian wrote:

> Am 27.04.2016 um 04:42 schrieb jfong@ms4.hinet.net:
>> Just curious:-) why everyone here open the csv file without using
>> newline='' as suggested in Python 3.4.4 document section 14.1?

Carelessness, lack of knowledge (I plead guilty), not on Windows and no 
embedded newline in sight?

> And if the csv module is used anyway, why not simply read into a
> DictReader?

How would that help with looking up 3.5 by "apple" given the OP's sample 
data

banana,4.0
apple,3.5
orange,3.0

? Please give a code example.

Finally, why would you think that asking rhetorical questions is a good way 
to communicate?