Creating a dictionary from a csv file?

I believe the syntax you were looking for is as follows:

import csv

with open('coors.csv', mode='r') as infile:
    reader = csv.reader(infile)
    with open('coors_new.csv', mode='w') as outfile:
        writer = csv.writer(outfile)
        mydict = {rows[0]:rows[1] for rows in reader}

Alternately, for python <= 2.7.1, you want:

mydict = dict((rows[0],rows[1]) for rows in reader)