title: Referring to a column in csv file python
body: <p>I am new to python so sorry it this seems a little silly.</p>
  
  <p>I have a CSV file where the first column is 'letter' followed by 150 letters, that is 150 rows of different letters of the alphabet, then another 16 columns with different info. I want to be able to refer to the first column, letter:</p>
  
  <pre><code>with open('file.csv') as f:
      reader = csv.reader(f)
      filedata = [r for r in reader]    
  print(filedata[0].letter)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As seen above, i want to be able to refer to the first column of the file. So:</p>
  
  <pre><code>print(filedata[0])
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Prints all the columns with that row of data, whereas i just want to refer to the first column, it's letter. More specifically i want to count all the letters in the file, </p>
  
  <p>eg. output:</p>
  
  <p>number of y's: 23, number of x's: 12 etc...</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>