Writing to CSV with Python adds blank lines [duplicate]

I am trying to write to CSV file but there are blank rows in between. How can I remove the blank rows?

import csv
b = open('test.csv', 'w')
a = csv.writer(b)
data = [['Me', 'You'],\
        ['293', '219'],\
        ['54', '13']]
a.writerows(data)
b.close()

The way you use the csv module changed in Python 3 in several respects (docs), at least with respect to how you need to open the file. Anyway, something like

import csv
with open('test.csv', 'w', newline='') as fp:
    a = csv.writer(fp, delimiter=',')
    data = [['Me', 'You'],
            ['293', '219'],
            ['54', '13']]
    a.writerows(data)

should work.

If you're using Python 2.x on Windows you need to change your line open('test.csv', 'w') to open('test.csv', 'wb'). That is you should open the file as a binary file.

However, as stated by others, the file interface has changed in Python 3.x.

import csv

hello = [['Me','You'],['293', '219'],['13','15']]
length = len(hello[0])

with open('test1.csv', 'wb') as testfile:
    csv_writer = csv.writer(testfile)
    for y in range(length):
        csv_writer.writerow([x[y] for x in hello])

will produce an output like this

Me You
293 219
13 15

Hope this helps

You need to open the file in binary b mode to take care of blank lines in Python 2. This isn't required in Python 3.

So, change open('test.csv', 'w') to open('test.csv', 'wb').

Pyexcel works great with both Python2 and Python3 without troubles.

Fast installation with pip:

pip install pyexcel

After that, only 3 lines of code and the job is done:

import pyexcel
data = [['Me', 'You'], ['293', '219'], ['54', '13']]
pyexcel.save_as(array = data, dest_file_name = 'csv_file_name.csv')

Writing to CSV with Python adds blank lines [duplicate]

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