Question

I am stuck on a problem where my script writes to multiple columns and not rows. I’m not sure what I am doing wrong.

Disclosure – I am really new to programming.

EDIT – Figured it out. This worked 🙂

Any thoughts?

import json
import csv
import subprocess
import urllib
import requests
from unidecode import unidecode

def main():
    list_writer= open_csv()
    info = test_method()
    for list in info:
        write_to_csv(list_writer, list)


def test_method():
    r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/legacy/repos/search/python'+'?start_page=1', auth=('user', 'pass'))
    dict_of_repos = json.loads(r.text)
    list_of_repos = dict_of_repos["repositories"]
    repo_information = []
    for repo in list_of_repos:
        indiv_repo = []
        indiv_repo.append(repo["name"])
        indiv_repo.append(repo["fork"])
        print indiv_repo
        repo_information.append(indiv_repo)
    return repo_information

def open_csv():
    github_csv = open('Githubcsv_1_2.csv', 'wb')
    writer = csv.writer(github_csv)
    return writer   

def write_to_csv(list_writer, info):
    list_writer.writerow(info)
    return

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Answer 1

it looks like your repo_information will look like

[
  ['name'],
  ['name2'],
  ['name3']
]

so it looks like all you need is to writerows

def write_to_csv(list_writer, info):
    list_writer.writerows(info)

This, of course, will write all the data to one column (each name being on a seperate row). If you want to write it all to the same row you could:

for repo in list_of_repos:            
        repo_information.append(repo['name'])
    print repo_information # ['name', 'name2', 'name3']
    return repo_information

and then writerow like you are currently doing. This would then put all the names in the same row.