Rough notes → clean code snippets

import csv
from pathlib import Path

def read_csv_as_dicts(path: str | Path) -> list[dict[str, str]]:
    """Read a CSV file and return its rows as dicts keyed by header.

    Blank rows are skipped. UTF-8 BOM is handled transparently.
    """
    rows: list[dict[str, str]] = []
    with open(path, newline="", encoding="utf-8-sig") as f:
        reader = csv.DictReader(f)
        for row in reader:
            if not any((v or "").strip() for v in row.values()):
                continue
            rows.append(row)
    return rows