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

Converting an sqlite database table to csv file can also be done directly using sqlite3 tools:

>sqlite3 c:/sqlite/chinook.db
sqlite> .headers on
sqlite> .mode csv
sqlite> .output data.csv
sqlite> SELECT customerid,
   ...>        firstname,
   ...>        lastname,
   ...>        company
   ...>   FROM customers;
sqlite> .quit

The above sqlite3 commands will will create a csv file called data.csv in your current directory (of course this file can be named whatever you choose). More details are available here: http://www.sqlitetutorial.net/sqlite-export-csv/