[python] Extract csv file specific columns to list in Python

What I'm trying to do is plot the latitude and longitude values of specific storms on a map using matplotlib,basemap,python, etc. My problem is that I'm trying to extract the latitude, longitude, and name of the storms on map but I keep getting errors between lines 41-44 where I try to extract the columns into the list. Could someone please help me figure this out. Thanks in advance.

Here is what the file looks like:

1957,AUDREY,HU, 21.6N, 93.3W
1957,AUDREY,HU,22.0N,  93.4W
1957,AUDREY,HU,22.6N,  93.5W
1957,AUDREY,HU,23.2N,  93.6W

I want the list to look like the following:

latitude = [21.6N,22.0N,23.4N]
longitude = [93.3W, 93.5W,93.8W]
name = ["Audrey","Audrey"]

Here's what I have so far:

data = np.loadtxt('louisianastormb.csv',dtype=np.str,delimiter=',',skiprows=1)
'''print data'''

data = np.loadtxt('louisianastormb.csv',dtype=np.str,delimiter=',',skiprows=0)

f= open('louisianastormb.csv', 'rb')
reader = csv.reader(f, delimiter=',')
header = reader.next()
zipped = zip(*reader)

latitude = zipped[3]
longitude = zipped[4]
names = zipped[1]
x, y = m(longitude, latitude)

Here's the last error message/traceback I received:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/darealmzd/lstorms.py", line 42, in

header = reader.next()
_csv.Error: new-line character seen in unquoted field - do you need to open the file in universal-newline mode?

import csv
from sys import argv

d = open("mydata.csv", "r")

db = []

for line in csv.reader(d):
    db.append(line)

# the rest of your code with 'db' filled with your list of lists as rows and columbs of your csv file.

A standard-lib version (no pandas)

This assumes that the first row of the csv is the headers

import csv

# open the file in universal line ending mode 
with open('test.csv', 'rU') as infile:
  # read the file as a dictionary for each row ({header : value})
  reader = csv.DictReader(infile)
  data = {}
  for row in reader:
    for header, value in row.items():
      try:
        data[header].append(value)
      except KeyError:
        data[header] = [value]

# extract the variables you want
names = data['name']
latitude = data['latitude']
longitude = data['longitude']