What is the pythonic way to read CSV file data as rows of namedtuples?

What is the best way to take a data file that contains a header row and read this row into a named tuple so that the data rows can be accessed by header name? I was attempting something like this: import csv from collections import namedtuple with open('data_file.txt', mode="r") as infile: reader = csv.reader(infile) Data = namedtuple("Data", ", ".join(i for i in reader[0])) next(reader) for row i