How do you read a CSV file and compute a total with Python?

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Using the csv module: open the file with DictReader and sum float(row["amount"]) in a loop. With pandas: df = pd.read_csv("file.csv"); df["amount"].sum(). Handle empty or invalid values and specify the encoding.

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