[Tutor] list to csv

Steve Willoughby steve at alchemy.com
Wed Oct 1 07:32:19 CEST 2008


Arun Tomar wrote:
> hi!
> 
> I've a list
> 
> new_array = ['n1', 'm1', 'p1', 'n2', 'm2', 'p2', 'n3', 'm3', 'p3']
> 
> I am trying to convert this to a csv in 3 columns so that the final
> output would look something like this
> 
> "n1","m1","p1"
> "n2","m2","p2"
> "n3","m3","p3"

This can easily be done with the "csv" module in the Python standard 
library.  Just create a csv.writer object, and call the writerow() 
method in it for every three elements in new_array and you're done.

> regds,
> arun.
> 
> 
> 
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