Why does csvwriter.writerow() put a comma after each character?

Question

This code opens the url and appends the /names at the end and opens the page and prints the string to test1.csv:

import urllib2
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Answer 1

It expects a sequence (eg: a list or tuple) of strings. You're giving it a single string. A string happens to be a sequence of strings too, but it's a sequence of 1 character strings, which isn't what you want.

If you just want one string per row you could do something like this:

csvwriter.writerow([JD])

This wraps JD (a string) with a list.