Question

I have a CSV file which is made of words in the first column. (1 word per row)

I need to print a list of these words, i.e.

CSV File:

a
and
because
have

Output wanted:

"a","and","because","have"

I am using python and so far I have the follwing code;

text=open('/Users/jessieinchauspe/Dropbox/Smesh/TMT/zipf.csv')
text1 = ''.join(ch for ch in text)
for word in text1:
    print  '"' + word + '"' +','

This is returning:

"a",
"",
"a",
"n",
...

Whereas I need everything one one line, and not by character but by word.
Thank you for your help!

EDIT: this is a screenshot of the preview of the CSV file

Answer 1

Just loop over the file directly:

with open('/Users/jessieinchauspe/Dropbox/Smesh/TMT/zipf.csv') as text:
    print ','.join('"{0}"'.format(word.strip()) for word in text)

The above code:

• Loops over the file; this gives you a line (including the newline \n character).
• Uses .strip() to remove whitespace around the word (including the newline).
• Uses .format() to put the word in quotes ('word' becomes '"word"')
• Uses ','.join() to join all quoted words together into one list with commas in between.