csv.write_table

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Create A CSV File from a Table

Prototype

# at_cascade.csv.write_table
def write_table(
   file_name  = None,
   table      = None,
   columns    = None,
) :
   assert type(file_name)  == str
   assert type(table)      == list
   assert type(columns) == list or columns == None
   if columns == None :
      columns = table[0].keys()

table

This must be a list of dict.

columns

This is a list of str specifying the keys in the table dictionary that are written to the file. If this argument is None , table [0].keys() is used as its default value. If csv.read_table returns am empty table, csv.get_header can be used to determine the column names.

file_name

is a str with the name of the CSV file. Upon return, this file has len( table ) + 1 lines, len( columns ) columns, with the following values

columns[0]

columns[1]

columns[2]

…

table[0][ columns[0] ]

table[0][ columns[1] ]

table[0][ columns[2] ]

…

table[1][ columns[0] ]

table[1][ columns[1] ]

table[1][ columns[2] ]

…

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Example

csv.table