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Python newbie here. I was trying to troubleshoot an issue with writing a csv file in a larger program and decided to go back to basics to try to find the problem. I ran an exact code example from the Python csv reading and writing documention: import csv spamWriter = csv.writer(open('eggs.csv', 'w'), delimiter=' ', quotechar='|') spamWriter.writerow(['Spam'] * 5 + ['Baked Beans']) spamWriter.writerow(['Spam', 'Lovely Spam', 'Wonderful Spam']) When I go to my working directory and click on "eggs.csv" the file is empty is reported as being "0 kb". This same thing was happening in my larger program (empty csv files). Am I missing something completely obvious? Thank you! EDIT : I just tried modified the code to: import csv csvOut=open("eggs.csv", "wb") spamWriter = csv.writer(csvOut, delimiter=' ', quotechar='|') spamWriter.writerow(['Spam'] * 5 + ['Baked Beans']) spamWriter.writerow(['Spam', 'Lovely Spam', 'Wonderful Spam']) csvOut.close() And this worked. I am not sure why the first doesn't work for me.

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