Python: Get csv lines

csv_utils

import csv
import logging

def get_csv_lines(file_name, encoding='cp1251'):
    try:
        lines = []
        with open(file_name, 'rb') as f:
            reader = csv.reader(f, delimiter=";")
            for line in reader:
                decoded_line = []
                for col in line:
                    decoded_line.append(col.decode(encoding))
                lines.append(decoded_line)
        return lines
    except IOError:
        message = "Input file %s doesn't exists" % file_name
        print message
        logging.error(message)
        return None