Python Dictionary to CSV

Question

I have written code to read a CSV into a python dictionary, which works fine. I\'m trying to get the dictionary back to a CSV. I have written the following:

Answer 1

The default writer expects a list, which is why it won't work for you. To use the dictwriter, just change your listwriter = line to this:

with open('/Users/broberts/Desktop/Sum_CSP1_output.csv', 'wb') as outfile:
    listWriter = csv.DictWriter(
       outfile,
       fieldnames=itemDict[itemDict.keys()[0]].keys(),
       delimiter=',',
       quotechar='|',
       quoting=csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL
    )

Or, you can just set fieldnames to be fieldnames=['arbitrary','list','of','keys'] if you know what the fields are supposed to be.