csv writer not closing file

Question

im reading a csv file and then writing a new one:

import csv

with open(\'thefile.csv\', \'rb\') as f:
  data = list(csv.reader(f))

import collections
count         


        

Answer 1

with open('/pythonwork/thefile_subset1.csv', 'w') as outfile:
    writer = csv.writer(outfile)
    for row in data:
        if counter[row[11]] >= 500:
           writer.writerow(row)