Converting CSV files to other formats like JSON or Excel is a common task in data engineering. CSV, which stands for Comma-Separated Values, is a plain text format that's easy to generate and parse.

Microsoft Excel has an import wizard, but if you structure the text correctly, you can bypass the wizard altogether.

CSV files outputted by Excel 2007 can be used in any program that can read this format. If the external program does not support the default Excel format, XLSX, you can generate the data in Excel ...

To convert a CSV file to JSON format, you'll use Python's built-in csv and json libraries. First, read the CSV file using csv.DictReader , which converts each row into a dictionary.