beginnings of another basic CSV parsing script

tutorials/textfiles101/read_data_from_CSV_2.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""
+Below is a bare-bones example showing how to read data from a CSV.
+
+We combine a "for" loop with the "open" function to read each line
+and add it to a list.
+ 
+The "open" function accepts a number of extra options, but in 
+in its most basic form can simply be called with the path to a file.
+"""
+# A list to store our data points
+data_store = []
+
+# Loop through lines, do some basic clean up, and
+# add data to our data_store
+for line in open('data/banklist.csv'):
+    clean_line = line.strip()
+    data_points = clean_line.split(',')
+    data_store.append(data_points)
+
+for line in data_store:
+    print line