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The document discusses writing data to CSV files in Python. It describes using the csv.writer object's writeRow() and writeRows() methods to write a single row or multiple rows to a CSV file from a list of data. It also describes using the csv.DictWriter object's writeHeader(), writeRows() and writeRow() methods to write data to a CSV file from a dictionary, including the option to specify a delimiter other than a comma.

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Python Pages Doc Ic Ac Uk CPP Lessons CPP 10 Files 10 Csvwrite HTML

The document discusses writing data to CSV files in Python. It describes using the csv.writer object's writeRow() and writeRows() methods to write a single row or multiple rows to a CSV file from a list of data. It also describes using the csv.DictWriter object's writeHeader(), writeRows() and writeRow() methods to write data to a CSV file from a dictionary, including the option to specify a delimiter other than a comma.

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Department of Computing, Imperial College London

Python for C++ Programmers


Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Basic data types
Chapter 3: Variables and operators
Chapter 4: Sequence types
Chapter 5: Sets and dictionaries
Chapter 6: Control flow
Chapter 7: Functions
Chapter 8: Object-oriented programming
Chapter 9: Modules
Chapter 10: Files
[10.1] Handling text files
[10.2] JSON files
[10.3] Loading JSON files
[10.4] Writing to JSON files
[10.5] pickle
[10.6] Pickling time!
[10.7] CSV files
[10.8] Reading CSV files
[10.9] Reading CSV files into a dict
[10.10] Writing to CSV files
[10.11] That's a wrap!

Chapter 10: Files


>> Writing to CSV files
face Josiah Wang

You can write data to a CSV file with the writer object in the csv module.
Use the .writerow() method to write a single row.
Use the .writerows() method to write multiple rows in one go.
The following code should produce a CSV file with the same content as our original students.csv from before.
import csv

header = ["name", "faculty", "department"]

data = [
["Alice Smith", "Science", "Chemistry"],
["Ben Williams", "Eng", "EEE"],
["Bob Jones", "Science", "Physics"],
1 ["Andrew Taylor", "Eng", "Computing"]
2 ]
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4 with open("output_students.csv", "w") as csv_file:
5 writer = csv.writer(csv_file)
6 writer.writerow(header)
7 writer.writerows(data)
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Writing to CSV files from a dictionary


You can also write to a CSV file from a dict rather than a list. Useful if you already have your object represented as
a structured dict.
Like csv.writer above, you can write a single dictionary with .writerow() or a list of dictionaries with .writerows().
Note the new .writeheader() method in the code below! Just for the sake of it, the code also demonstrates writing
a CSV separated by | instead of commas.
import csv

header = ["name", "faculty", "department"]

data = [
{"name": "Alice Smith", "faculty": "Science", "department": "Chemistry"},
{"name": "Ben Williams", "faculty": "Eng", "department": "EEE"},
1 {"name": "Bob Jones", "faculty": "Science", "department": "Physics"}
2 ]
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4 extra_student = {"name": "Andrew Taylor",
5 "faculty": "Eng",
6 "department": "Computing"}
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8 with open("output_students.csv", "w") as csv_file:
9 writer = csv.DictWriter(csv_file, fieldnames=header,
10 delimiter="|")
11 writer.writeheader()
12 writer.writerows(data)
13 writer.writerow(extra_student)
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