How do I read and write CSV files with Python?

Question

I have a file example.csv with the contents

1,\"A towel,\",1.0
42,\" it says, \",2.0
1337,is about the most ,-1
0,massively useful thing ,123
-2         


        

Answer 1

Writing a CSV file

First you need to import csv

For eg:

import csv

with open('eggs.csv', 'wb') as csvfile:
    spamwriter = csv.writer(csvfile, delimiter=' ',
                        quotechar='|', quoting=csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL)
    spamwriter.writerow(['Spam'] * 5 + ['Baked Beans'])
    spamwriter.writerow(['Spam', 'Lovely Spam', 'Wonderful Spam'])