## 9.1.3 Reader Objects

Reader objects (`DictReader` instances and objects returned by the `reader()` function) have the following public methods:

`next`( | )

  Return the next row of the reader's iterable object as a list, parsed according to the current dialect.

Reader objects have the following public attributes:

`dialect`
  A read-only description of the dialect in use by the parser.

`line_num`
  The number of lines read from the source iterator. This is not the same as the number of records returned, as records can span multiple lines. New in version 2.5.