如何用csv.DictWriter编写标题行?

时间:2010-06-05 20:41:26

标签: python csv

假设我有一个csv.DictReader对象,我想把它写成CSV文件。我怎么能这样做?

我知道我可以像这样编写数据行

dr = csv.DictReader(open(f), delimiter='\t')
# process my dr object
# ...
# write out object
output = csv.DictWriter(open(f2, 'w'), delimiter='\t')
for item in dr:
    output.writerow(item)

但是我如何包含字段名?

3 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:133)

编辑:
在2.7 / 3.2中有a new writeheader() method。此外,John Machin的回答提供了一种更简单的方法来编写标题行 使用2.7 / 3.2中现有的writeheader()方法的简单示例:

from collections import OrderedDict
ordered_fieldnames = OrderedDict([('field1',None),('field2',None)])
with open(outfile,'wb') as fou:
    dw = csv.DictWriter(fou, delimiter='\t', fieldnames=ordered_fieldnames)
    dw.writeheader()
    # continue on to write data

实例化DictWriter需要一个fieldnames参数 来自the documentation

  

fieldnames参数标识   中的值的顺序   字典传递给了writerow()   方法被写入csvfile。

换句话说:Fieldnames参数是必需的,因为Python dicts本质上是无序的 下面是如何将标题和数据写入文件的示例 注意:在{2.6}中添加了with语句。如果使用2.5:from __future__ import with_statement

with open(infile,'rb') as fin:
    dr = csv.DictReader(fin, delimiter='\t')

# dr.fieldnames contains values from first row of `f`.
with open(outfile,'wb') as fou:
    dw = csv.DictWriter(fou, delimiter='\t', fieldnames=dr.fieldnames)
    headers = {} 
    for n in dw.fieldnames:
        headers[n] = n
    dw.writerow(headers)
    for row in dr:
        dw.writerow(row)

正如@FM在评论中提到的那样,你可以将标题写入浓缩,例如:

with open(outfile,'wb') as fou:
    dw = csv.DictWriter(fou, delimiter='\t', fieldnames=dr.fieldnames)
    dw.writerow(dict((fn,fn) for fn in dr.fieldnames))
    for row in dr:
        dw.writerow(row)

答案 1 :(得分:27)

一些选择:

(1)费力地在你的字段名中制作一个身份映射(即无所事事)字典,以便csv.DictWriter可以将其转换回列表并将其传递给csv.writer实例。

(2)文档提到“基础writer实例”......所以只需使用它(最后的例子)。

dw.writer.writerow(dw.fieldnames)

(3)避免csv.Dictwriter开销并使用csv.writer自行完成

写数据:

w.writerow([d[k] for k in fieldnames])

w.writerow([d.get(k, restval) for k in fieldnames])

而不是extrasaction“功能”,我宁愿自己编写代码;这样你可以用键和值报告所有“额外”,而不仅仅是第一个额外的键。 DictWriter真正令人讨厌的是,如果你在构建每个dict时自己验证了密钥,你需要记住使用extrasaction ='ignore'否则它会慢慢(fieldnames是一个列表)重复检查:

wrong_fields = [k for k in rowdict if k not in self.fieldnames]

============

>>> f = open('csvtest.csv', 'wb')
>>> import csv
>>> fns = 'foo bar zot'.split()
>>> dw = csv.DictWriter(f, fns, restval='Huh?')
# dw.writefieldnames(fns) -- no such animal
>>> dw.writerow(fns) # no such luck, it can't imagine what to do with a list
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\python26\lib\csv.py", line 144, in writerow
    return self.writer.writerow(self._dict_to_list(rowdict))
  File "C:\python26\lib\csv.py", line 141, in _dict_to_list
    return [rowdict.get(key, self.restval) for key in self.fieldnames]
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'get'
>>> dir(dw)
['__doc__', '__init__', '__module__', '_dict_to_list', 'extrasaction', 'fieldnam
es', 'restval', 'writer', 'writerow', 'writerows']
# eureka
>>> dw.writer.writerow(dw.fieldnames)
>>> dw.writerow({'foo':'oof'})
>>> f.close()
>>> open('csvtest.csv', 'rb').read()
'foo,bar,zot\r\noof,Huh?,Huh?\r\n'
>>>

答案 2 :(得分:9)

另一种方法是在输出中添加行之前添加,如下所示:

output.writerow(dict(zip(dr.fieldnames, dr.fieldnames)))

zip会返回包含相同值的doublet列表。此列表可用于启动字典。