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Robert Birch
Robert Birch

Reputation: 251

Writing a function to a CSV File

I'm following the CSV documentation and I am off on a tangent. How do I write a function into a csv file? I'm trying to write true_or_false(3)'s results to a cell with the following code but it seems like I am missing a bracket, an apostrophe or a parentheses. When I try to write it...I get an "invalid syntax error" 

import csv
#import module

x = 5

def true_or_false(n):
    return n > x

print true_or_false(3)  

with open('eggs.csv', 'wb') as csvfile:
    #open csv file
    spamwriter = csv.writer(csvfile, delimiter= ' ',
                            quotechar= '|', quoting =csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL)
                            #quotechar is the character between apostrophes
    spamwriter.writerow(['Spam'] * 5 + ['Baked Beans'])
    # wrote down this
    spamwriter.writerow(['Spam' 'Lovely Spam', 'Wonderful Spam'])
    # wrote down that
    spamwriter.writerow(true_or_false(3)
    # how to write?

Thanks for your help in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 204

Answers (1)

Christian Ternus
Christian Ternus

Reputation: 8492

Well, first, you need to close your paren:

spamwriter.writerow(true_or_false(3))

And second, you need to put it inside a list -- writerow expects an iterable:

spamwriter.writerow([true_or_false(3)])

That should do it.

Upvotes: 5

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