Here is what I currently have:
conn = sqlite3.connect(dbfile)
conn.text_factory = str ## my current (failed) attempt to resolve this
cur = conn.cursor()
data = cur.execute("SELECT * FROM mytable")
f = open('output.csv', 'w')
print >> f, "Column1, Column2, Column3, Etc."
for row in data:
print >> f, row
f.close()
It creates a CSV file with output that looks like this:
Column1, Column2, Column3, Etc.
(1, u'2011-05-05 23:42:29',298776684,1448052234,463564768,-1130996322, None, u'2011-05-06 04:44:41')
I don't want the rows to be in parentheses nor have quotes nor the 'u' before strings. How do I get it to write the rows to csv without all of this? Thanks,
What you're currently doing is printing out the python string representation of a tuple, i.e. the return value of str(row)
. That includes the quotes and 'u's and parentheses and so on.
Instead, you want the data formatted properly for a CSV file. Well, try the csv
module. It knows how to format things for CSV files, unsurprisingly enough.
with open('output.csv', 'wb') as f:
writer = csv.writer(f)
writer.writerow(['Column 1', 'Column 2', ...])
writer.writerows(data)