dump csv from sqlalchemy

Question

For some reason, I want to dump a table from a database (sqlite3) in the form of a csv file. I\'m using a python script with elixir (based on sqlalchemy) to modify the datab

Answer 1

with open('dump.csv', 'wb') as f:
    out = csv.writer(f)
    out.writerow(['id', 'description'])

    for item in session.query(Queue).all():
        out.writerow([item.id, item.description])

I found this to be useful if you don't mind hand-crafting your column labels.