import csv

def csv_to_list(csv_file, delimiter=','):
    """ 
    Reads in a CSV file and returns the contents as list,
    where every row is stored as a sublist, and each element
    in the sublist represents 1 cell in the table.
    
    """
    with open(csv_file, 'r') as csv_con:
        reader = csv.reader(csv_con, delimiter=delimiter)
        return list(reader)
        
data = csv_to_list('./astro.csv')
print data
add script to read csv files to list