Convert unicode from API Endpoint (csv) to csv or jason or pydataset

[PGriffith]

You can use Python's csv module to parse the CSV, then construct your dataset yourself:

Perspective onFileReceived - CSV

If you want to use Python’s built-in csv module, you need to construct a file-like object to pass to the reader. Luckily, Python also predicted the idea of interpreting a string in memory as a ‘file-like’ object, so the StringIO module already exists. What you want is probably something like this: from StringIO import StringIO fileContents = event.file.getString("UTF-8") reader = csv.DictReader(StringIO(fileContents)) for row in reader: print row

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