Reading from a file using CSV reader

Python provides a wonderful module called csv to work with CSV files. You can pass the .reader() method of csv a Python file object and use it as you would any other iterable. To create a Python file object, you use the open() function, which accepts a file name and a mode. The mode is typically 'r' for read or 'w' for write.

Though you won't use it for this exercise, often CSV files will have a header row with field names, and you will need to use slice notation such as [1:] to skip the header row.

You'll now use the csv module to read the baby_names.csv file and fill the baby_names dictionary with data. This baby_names dictionary has already been created for you.

Import the python csv module.
Create a Python file object in read mode for baby_names.csv called csvfile with the open function.
Use the reader method from the csv module on the file object in a for loop. Inside the loop:
- Print each row and add the rank (the 6th element of row) as the key and name (the 4th element of row) as the value to the existing dictionary (baby_names).
Print the keys of baby_names.

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Reading from a file using CSV reader

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