On 16/01/2022 09.56, Mahmood Naderan via Python-list wrote: > Hi, > I use the following line to write some information to a CSV file which is > comma delimited. > > f = open(output_file, 'w', newline='') > wr = csv.writer(f) > ... > f.write(str(n) + "," + str(key) + "\n" ) > > > Problem is that key is a string which may contain ',' and this causes the > final CSV file to have more than 2 columns, while I want to write the whole > key as a single column. > > I know that wr.writerow([key]) writes the entire key in one column, but I > would like to do the same with write(). Any idea to fix that?
This is 'CSV' rather than 'Python'. The solution is to "escape" the string. Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/769621/dealing-with-commas-in-a-csv-file -- Regards, =dn -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
