# Perspective onFileReceived - CSV

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**Created:** [October 21, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-onfilereceived-csv/39893 "2020-10-21T19:41:57Z")\
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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:

```auto
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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