code: def load_tbl_from_csv(fname):
  	
  	import csv
  
  	rows_to_load = []
  
  	with open(fname, 'r', encoding='cp1252', errors='ignore') as csvfile:
  		csvreader = csv.reader(csvfile, delimiter = ',' )
  
  		reader = csv.reader(csvfile)
  
  		rows_to_load = list(reader)
  
  	return rows_to_load
docs: read a CSV file to list without worrying about odd characters