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+"""Module containing the IO parts of the pipeline"""
+
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import io
+import logging
+import csv
+
+import apache_beam as beam
+
+from apache_beam.io.filesystems import FileSystems
+
+
+class ReadFromCsv(beam.DoFn):
+    """This custom DoFn will read from a CSV file and yield each row as a
+    dictionary where the row names are the keys and the cells are the values
+    """
+
+    def process(self, in_file):
+        fname = in_file.get()
+        logging.info("reading from input file: %s", fname)
+        with FileSystems.open(fname) as file:
+            text_wrapper = io.TextIOWrapper(file)
+            reader = csv.reader(text_wrapper)
+            try:
+                header = next(reader)
+            except StopIteration:
+                return
+            for row in reader:
+                yield dict(zip(header, row))