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Asked: 2026-06-08T10:38:56+00:00

So I have a solved problem, but I don’t like the solution :) with

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So I have a solved problem, but I don’t like the solution 🙂

with open(outfile, 'a') as file:
    writer = csv.writer(file) #opens a csv writer
    #inserts ID to front of wordList
    wordList.insert(0,ID)
    writer.writerow(wordList)
    #removes ID
    wordList.remove(ID)

Right now it successfully writes an ID and a list of words into csv form (as far as I can tell– I don’t actually have excel on my computer). The part I don’t like is that I have to insert and remove the ID, because I don’t want it included later. This seems lame. Can I somehow do a double insert to the same row, easily?

I tried: 

 writer.writerow([ID,wordList])

but it gave undesirable square brackets

This is for 2.7, if that matters!
Thanks !

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    writer.writerow([ID] + wordList)

    or

    from itertools import chain

writer.writerow(chain([ID], wordList))
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