Short answer:
with open('zumatchende.csv') as f: cf = csv.reader(f) row = [e[0] for e in cf] rowOut[14]: ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']Long answer:
Per the docs, DictReader outputs a dictionary whose keys are given by the optional fieldnames parameter. If fieldnames is omitted, the values in the first row of file f will be used as the fieldnames.
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