How to export sqlite to CSV in Python without being formatted as a list?

Question

Here is what I currently have:

conn = sqlite3.connect(dbfile)
conn.text_factory = str ## my current (failed) attempt to resolve this
cur = conn.cursor()
data         


        

Answer 1

What you're currently doing is printing out the python string representation of a tuple, i.e. the return value of str(row). That includes the quotes and 'u's and parentheses and so on.

Instead, you want the data formatted properly for a CSV file. Well, try the csv module. It knows how to format things for CSV files, unsurprisingly enough.

with open('output.csv', 'wb') as f:
    writer = csv.writer(f)
    writer.writerow(['Column 1', 'Column 2', ...])
    writer.writerows(data)