How to write to a CSV line by line

Question

I have data which is being accessed via http request and is sent back by the server in a comma separated format  I have the following code    site   www example com  hdr     User-Agent    Mozilla 5 0   req   urllib2 Request site headers hdr  page   urllib2 urlopen req  soup   BeautifulSoup page  soup   soup get text   text str soup    The content of text is as follows   april 2 5 7 may 3 5 8 june 4 7 3 july 5 6 9   How can I save this data into a CSV file  I know I can do something along the lines of the following to iterate line by line   import StringIO s   StringIO StringIO text  for line in s    But i m unsure how to now properly write each line to CSV  EDIT---  Thanks for the feedback as suggested the solution was rather simple and can be seen below   Solution   import StringIO s   StringIO StringIO text  with open  fileName csv    w   as f      for line in s          f write line

User · Answer

You could just write to the file as you would write any normal file.

with open('csvfile.csv','wb') as file:
    for l in text:
        file.write(l)
        file.write('\n')

If just in case, it is a list of lists, you could directly use built-in csv module

import csv

with open("csvfile.csv", "wb") as file:
    writer = csv.writer(file)
    writer.writerows(text)

User · Answer

To complement the previous answers  I whipped up a quick class to write to CSV files  It makes it easier to manage and close open files and achieve consistency and cleaner code if you have to deal with multiple files   class CSVWriter         filename   None     fp   None     writer   None      def   init   self  filename           self filename   filename         self fp   open self filename   w   encoding  utf8           self writer   csv writer self fp  delimiter      quotechar      quoting csv QUOTE ALL  lineterminator   n        def close self           self fp close        def write self  elems           self writer writerow elems       def size self           return os path getsize self filename       def fname self           return self filename   Example usage   mycsv   CSVWriter   tmp test csv   mycsv write  12  green   apples    mycsv write  7  yellow   bananas    mycsv close   print  Written  d bytes to  s     mycsv size    mycsv fname       Have fun

User · Answer

What about this   with open  your csv file csv    w   as f      f write   n  join text        str join   Return a string which is the concatenation of the strings in iterable    The separator between elements is   the string providing this method

User · Answer

I would simply write each line to a file  since it s already in a CSV format   write file    output csv  with open write file   w   as output      for line in text          output write line     n     I can t recall how to write lines with line-breaks at the moment  though  p  Also  you might like to take a look at this answer about write    writelines    and   n

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General way     text List of strings to be written to file with open  csvfile csv   wb   as file      for line in text          file write line          file write   n     OR  Using CSV writer    import csv with open  lt path to output csv gt    wb   as csv file          writer   csv writer csv file  delimiter              for line in data              writer writerow line    OR  Simplest way   f   open  csvfile csv   w   f write  hi there n    Give your csv text here     Python will convert  n to os linesep f close

[python] How to write to a CSV line by line?

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