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import unicodecsv as csv


def isstring(_str):
    return isinstance(_str, str) or isinstance(_str, unicode)
    
    
def read_csv(filename):
    list_of_dicts = []
    with open(filename, 'rb') as f:
        reader = csv.DictReader(f)
        list_of_dicts = [row for row in reader]
    return list_of_dicts


def save_csv(list_of_dicts, filename):
    fieldnames = set([k for _dict in list_of_dicts for k in _dict])
    with open(filename, 'wb') as f:
        writer = csv.DictWriter(f, fieldnames)
        writer.writeheader()
        for _dict in list_of_dicts:
            _d = {k: v.encode("utf-8", errors="ignore") if isstring(v) else v for k, v in _dict.iteritems()}
            writer.writerow(_d)