Write dictionary of lists to a CSV file

Question

I\'m struggling with writing a dictionary of lists to a .csv file.

This is how my dictionary looks like:

dict[key1]=[1,2,3]
dict[key2]=[4,5,6]
dict[k         


        

Answer 1

Roll your own without the csv module:

d = {'key1' : [1,2,3],
     'key2' : [4,5,6],
     'key3' : [7,8,9]}

column_sequence = sorted(d.keys())
width = 6
fmt = '{{:<{}}}'.format(width)
fmt = fmt*len(column_sequence) + '\n'

output_rows = zip(*[d[key] for key in column_sequence])

with open('out.txt', 'wb') as f:
    f.write(fmt.format(*column_sequence))
    for row in output_rows:
        f.write(fmt.format(*row))