Writing list of dictionaries to CSV

Wed May 6 14:08:52 EDT 2015

On 2015年05月06日 06:32, Kashif Rana wrote:
> Hello guys
>> thanks for the feedback. I think its problem with excel itself, showing wrong value. Because when I opened the csv file in text editor, I can see correct value but opening in excel showing wrong value. What I can do to see correct in excel as well.
>> Regards
>You could tell it to quote any value that's not a number:
	w = csv.DictWriter(f, pol_keys, quoting=csv.QUOTE_NONNUMERIC)
It looks like all of the values you have are strings, so they'll all be
quoted.
I would hope that Excel will then treat it as a string; it would be
stupid if it didn't! :-)
> On Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 9:09:40 PM UTC+4, Kashif Rana wrote:
>> Hello Experts
>>>> When I am writing list of dictionaries to CSV file, the key 'schedule' has value 'Mar 2012' becomes Mar-12. I really do not have clue why thats happening. Below is the code.
>>>> dic_1 = {'action': 'permit',
>> 'dst-address': 'maxprddb-scan-167, maxprddb-scan-168, maxprddb-scan-169',
>> 'from': 'DMZ Web',
>> 'id': '1000',
>> 'log': 'Enable, session-init',
>> 'name': 'Test Rule Temporary ',
>> 'service': '1521, Oraccle-Maximo-Scan-1550, PING-ALL',
>> 'src-address': 'sparkeregap1, sparkeregap2',
>> 'to': 'Trust'}
>>>> dic_2 {'action': 'permit',
>> 'dst-address': 'sparkcas01, sparkcas02, email.ab.spark.net',
>> 'from': 'DMZ Web',
>> 'id': '4000',
>> 'log': 'Enable, session-init',
>> 'schedule': 'Mar 2012',
>> 'service': 'SMTP',
>> 'src-address': 'sparkeregap1, sparkeregap2',
>> 'to': 'Trust'}
>>>> my_list =
>> [{'to': 'Trust', 'service': '1521, Oraccle-Maximo-Scan-1550, PING-ALL', 'from': 'DMZ Web', 'dst-address': 'maxprddb-scan-167, maxprddb-scan-168, maxprddb-scan-169', 'name': 'Test Rule Temporary ', 'action': 'permit', 'id': '1000', 'src-address': 'sparkeregap1, sparkeregap2', 'log': 'Enable, session-init'}, {'to': 'Trust', 'from': 'DMZ Web', 'dst-address': 'sparkcas01, sparkcas02, email.ab.spark.net', 'service': 'SMTP', 'schedule': 'Mar 2012', 'action': 'permit', 'id': '4000', 'src-address': 'sparkeregap1, sparkeregap2', 'log': 'Enable, session-init'}]
>>>> pol_keys = ['id', 'name', 'from', 'to', 'src-address', 'dst-address', 'service', 'action', 'nat_status', 'nat_type', 'nat_src_ip', 'nat_dst_ip', 'nat_dst_port', 'log', 'schedule']
>>>> with open('test.csv', 'wb') as f:
>> 	w = csv.DictWriter(f, pol_keys)
>> 	w.writeheader()
>> 	w.writerows(my_list)
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