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12.20.4 Writer Objects
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<tt class=
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</tt> objects (
<tt class=
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</tt> instances and objects returned by
the
<tt class=
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</tt> function) have the following public methods. A
<var>row
</var> must be a sequence of strings or numbers for
<tt class=
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</tt>
objects and a dictionary mapping fieldnames to strings or numbers (by
passing them through
<tt class=
"function">str()
</tt> first) for
<tt class=
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</tt>
objects. Note that complex numbers are written out surrounded by parens.
This may cause some problems for other programs which read CSV files
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</tt></b>(
</nobr></td>
<td><var>row
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Write the
<var>row
</var> parameter to the writer's file object, formatted
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4239'
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"method">writerows
</tt></b>(
</nobr></td>
<td><var>rows
</var>)
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Write all the
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</var> parameters (a list of
<var>row
</var> objects as
described above) to the writer's file object, formatted
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