Print keys of CSV files in DNA pset6

Question

I want to see what the keys of the reader dictionary are so I use the print(key) function. The result is all the lines of the dictionary. Why is that?

import csv
from sys import argv, exit

# Check if there are enough command-line arguments
if len(argv) != 3:
    print("missing comment-line argument")
    exit(1)
# Open the CSV file to read
with open(argv[1], "r") as csvfile:
    reader = csv.DictReader(csvfile)
#   Why don't the following lines print the keys but all the lines in the CSV file?
    for key in reader:
         print(key)

The result:

OrderedDict([('name', 'Alice'), ('AGATC', '2'), ('AATG', '8'), ('TATC', '3')])

OrderedDict([('name', 'Bob'), ('AGATC', '4'), ('AATG', '1'), ('TATC', '5')])

OrderedDict([('name', 'Charlie'), ('AGATC', '3'), ('AATG', '2'), ('TATC', '5')])

Answer 1

The simplest method would be to reread only the first line of the csv and split the string using the commas like this:

keys = csvfile.readline().split(",")
print(keys)

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