csv: writer.writerows() splitting my string inputs

Question

I have a list of strings which I would like to write to a csv file. The list list_results looks like

[\'False, 60, 40 \', \'True, 70, 30, \']
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Answer 1

Most likely your list_results contains something like:

['False, 60, 40 ', 'True, 70, 30, ']

writerows() takes a list of lists, you supply a list of strings, a string is iterable and is thus converted into list of chars, what you want is:

with open('example1.csv', 'w') as result:
    writer = csv.writer(result, delimiter=",")
    writer.writerow( ('Correct?', 'Successes', 'Failures') )
    writer.writerows([c.strip() for c in r.split(',')] for r in list_results)