2.7 CSV module wants unicode, but doesn't want unicode

Question

csvfile_ = open(finishedFileName+num+\".csv\",\"w\",newline=\'\')
writ = csv.writer(csvfile_, dialect=\'excel\')
firstline = unicode(str(firstline))
try:
    writ.writer         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem with open() and csv. A friend gave me the solution, which is to use open_output() instead of open(). open_output() defaults to "wb" instead of text.