from functools import reduce cons = lambda h, t: [h, *t] postpend = lambda l, e: [*l, e] parse_tok = lambda t: lambda s: [(t, s[len(t):])] if s.startswith(t) else [] parse_except = lambda e: lambda s: [(s[0], s[1:])] if len(s) > 0 and s[0] not in e else [] parse_eof = lambda s: [('', "")]if len(s) == 0 else [] parse_altl = lambda a, b: lambda s: (lambda ra: ra if len(ra) > 0 else b(s))(a(s)) parse_seq = lambda f: lambda a, b: lambda s: [(f(v1, v2), r2) for (v1, r1) in a(s) for (v2, r2) in b(r1)] parse_seql = parse_seq(lambda l, r: l) parse_seqr = parse_seq(lambda l, r: r) parse_pure = lambda v: lambda s: [(v, s)] parse_map = lambda f, a: lambda s: [(f(v), r) for (v, r) in a(s)] parse_many = lambda a: parse_altl(parse_seq(cons)(a, lambda s: parse_many(a)(s)), parse_pure([])) parse_many_sep = lambda sep: lambda a: parse_altl(parse_seq(postpend)(parse_many(parse_seql(a, sep)), a), parse_pure([])) parse_any_tok = lambda *ts: reduce(parse_altl, [parse_tok(t) for t in ts], lambda s: []) parse_whitespace = parse_many(parse_tok(' ')) parse_dbqt = parse_tok('"') parse_str_char = parse_except('"') parse_newline = parse_any_tok('\r\n', '\n', '\r') parse_escaped_quote = parse_map(lambda _: '"', parse_tok('""')) parse_quoted = parse_seql(parse_seqr(parse_seqr(parse_whitespace, parse_dbqt), parse_many(parse_altl(parse_str_char, parse_escaped_quote))), parse_seql(parse_dbqt, parse_whitespace)) parse_unquoted = parse_many(parse_except('"\r\n,')) parse_field = parse_map(lambda chars: ''.join(chars), parse_altl(parse_quoted, parse_unquoted)) parse_line = parse_many_sep(parse_tok(','))(parse_field) parse_lines = parse_many_sep(parse_newline)(parse_line) trim_final_empty_line = lambda lines: lines[:-1] if len(lines)>0 and lines[-1] in [[""],[]] else lines parse_csv = parse_seql(parse_map(trim_final_empty_line, parse_lines), parse_eof) def read_csv_file(file_path): with open(file_path, 'r') as file: parse_results = parse_csv(file.read()) return parse_results[0][0] if len(parse_results) else None parsed_table = read_csv_file("./my_data.csv") print(f'Row 3, Column D reads: {parsed_table[2][3]}')