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Reputation: 2978

Python data frame Export to csv with Quotation marks (")

How to export python dataframe to csv with double quotes. I have tried with below code but its not coming in output file. I need results like "column1","column2",column3"... Please help.

exportPath=exportPath+'\\data2Upload.csv'
header=['Country','Indicator','Unit','Frequency','Date','Value']
data.to_csv(exportPath,columns=header,sep=',',quotechar='"',index=False)

Upvotes: 6

Views: 13209

Answers (1)

mprat
mprat

Reputation: 2471

You can tell pandas to quote everything by default using the csv.QUOTE_ALL property:

data.to_csv(exportPath, columns=header,sep=",",quotechar='"',index=False,
            quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL)

Official Python docs: https://docs.python.org/2/library/csv.html#csv.QUOTE_ALL

Upvotes: 8

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