I have some data structured like this:
{'B002':'NRP 2014','B003':'HBB 2015'}
Basically account numbers and project names, each account number has a
project name. I represent it in a dictionary because that seemed the
best way to keep the account numbers and project names together. I want
to save that information to a file, CSV seemed the easiest format
(though I am open to suggestions if there is a better way!). I expected
I could write a function that would create a CSV file that looks like this:
B002,NRP 2014
B003,HBB 2015
I thought the DictWriter method of the CSV module should do the trick so
wrote this:
def write_fqas(fqa_csv,fqa_dict):
with open('fqa_csv','w') as csvfile:
writer = csv.DictWriter(csvfile,fieldnames=['FQA','Description']
writer.writerows(fqa_dict)
This didn't yield the results I was looking for, instead it raises
ValueError: dict contains fields not in fieldnames: 'B', '0', '0', '2'
It seems to be parsing through the key of the first item in the
dictionary rather than simply saving it to the CSV file as the first
field on a line (like I expected). Obviously there is something about
how csv.DictWriter works that I don't understand.
Any assistance is appreciated.
thomas
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Thomas C. Hicks, MD, MPH
Training Manager, Gansu Gateway
Lanzhou, Gansu, PR China
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