Am 27.04.2016 um 11:31 schrieb Peter Otten: > Sibylle Koczian wrote: > >> 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 > Quite right, it wouldn't. Misread the problem, sorry.