Question

Firstly, I’m just learning Python (which is my first language) so, while I recognise there are numerous websites that address this, I’ve spent a weekend trying to get my head around implementing a solution and got nowhere with it. So, I’m hoping someone here can help me 🙂

The problem is simple: I’ve created a list of lists in a Python program, and I need to output them to a *.csv file so I can import it into Excel etc.

The list looks like this:

[['title1','title2','title3'],['date1','info1','category1'],['date2','info2','category3'],...]

I’ve found solutions where the elements in each list are integers, I can’t get them to work with strings.

Any help on this would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

Adam

Answer 1

There’s a CSV module that can do this:

import csv

data = [['title1','title2','title3'],['date1','info1','category1'],['date2','info2','category3']]

with open('stuff.csv', 'wb') as csvfile:
  writer = csv.writer(csvfile)
  for line in data:
    writer.writerow(line)