Newbie question to add columns in dataframe

[zydjohn]

Hello:
I have a CSV file (C:\Temp\NameList.CSV), it has exactly 20,000 records, like this:
First Name, Last Name (Field names)
John, Doe
......
Xyz, Fini

I want to read the CSV and convert it to dataframe, containing all 20000 records.
But I also want to add 2 columns to the dataframe.
One column, I want to add the 'index' to the records, for example, the first record in the CSV, get 1,
the second record in the CSV, get 2; ... until the last one record in the CSV, get 20000.
Another column, I want to add a 'Record Date', which is the date of today, and all 20000 records will get the same record.
Please advise how to code this in Python.
Thanks,

[ODIS]

You can do it like this:

import csv
from datetime import datetime


data_frame = []
row_index = 1
record_date = datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d")

with open("./name_list.csv") as csv_file:
    name_list_reader = csv.reader(csv_file, delimiter=",")
    for row in name_list_reader:
        data_frame.append({
            "index": row_index,
            "first_name": row[0].strip(),
            "last_name": row[1].strip(),
            "record_date": record_date
        })
        row_index += 1

print(str(data_frame))