Thanks Tim, that worked like magic.
I now have another challenge on the same file, in this case, i am trying to
extract just a column as PARTY, I successfully wrote the header but instead
of having each element in a single excel block like this:
A
ACD
ACN
ACPN
AD
ADC
ALP
ANPP
APGA
APS
ARP
BNPP
CAP
CDC
CPC
CPN
CPP
DFPF
DPP
It is spelt out on different block like this:
PARTY A A C D A C N A C P N A D A D C A L P A N P P A P G
A A P S A R P B N P P C A P C D C C P C C P N C P P D F P F
D P P
what could be wrong with this code:
import csv
reader = csv.reader(open('stateparty.csv'))
counter = 1
header = ["PARTY"]
fh = open('stateparty3.csv','wb')
writer = csv.writer(fh)
writer.writerow(header)
for row in reader:
if counter == 1:
parties = row[1:-1]
for party in parties:
writer.writerow([party])
counter += 1
fh.close()
Thanks for your responses as anticipated.
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> On 17/03/2011 11:56, Dipo Elegbede wrote:
>
>> i wrote a code for extracting information from a csv file into another
>> csv file.
>> it worked well but i have an immediate challenge i can't seem to fix.
>> the new file that is created has an row and then an empty row and then a
>> row all through the file. how can i make the empty rows not be part of
>> the file.
>>
>
> Open the file in binary mode:
>
> fh = open('stateparty2.csv','wb')
>
> TJG
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