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

I know this is old, but i just had this problem and this is how i solved it

from sqlalchemy import create_engine

basedir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
sql_engine = create_engine(os.path.join('sqlite:///' + os.path.join(basedir, 'single_file_app.db')), echo=False)
results = pd.read_sql_query('select * from users',sql_engine)
results.to_csv(os.path.join(basedir, 'mydump2.csv'),index=False,sep=";")