writing a csv file

[Mark Lawrence]

On 12/11/2012 00:05, ejsaiet at alaska.edu wrote:
>
> with open("/home/eyalak/Documents/weather/weather.csv", "wb") as f:
>        writer = csv.writer(f)
>        table = soup.findAll("table")[3]
>        #print table
>        for tr in table.findAll("tr", valign="top"):
>           a={x.string for x in tr.findAll('td')}
>           print str(a)
>           writer.writerows([a])
>
> It did not work unless I changed the line a={x.string for x in tr.findAll('td')} to a=list({x.string for x in tr.findAll('td')})
>
> But that disorganizes the data. How can I write the data to a csv file without altering the order prior to the list function.
> Thanks
> E
>

Change the line print str(a) to print type(a), a
You'll see what the problem is and be able to fix it.

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.