Python3 csv writer failing, exiting on error "TypeError: 'newline' is an invalid keyword argument for this function

Question

What I\'m trying to do:

I\'m trying to change the formatting on a csv file from space delimited to comma delimited.

What I\'ve don

Answer 1

The wording is just a bit vague. The file should be opened with newline='', but newline is not a valid option for csv.writer() itself.

Answer 2

To avoid this error , open the file in 'wb' mode instead of 'w' mode. This will eliminate the need for newline. Corrected code is as follows:

with open(csvpath, 'wb') as g:
    gWriter = csv.writer(g)
    gWriter.writerows(rows)

Answer 3

The following will do

with open('filename_inCSV.csv',mode='r') as csvfile:

or

with open('filename_inCSV.csv','r') as csvfile:

Answer 4

newline does not work in with open('output.csv', 'a',newline='') as fp. It will return back an error:

'newline' is an invalid keyword argument for this function

I used 'ab' method and it worked without blank lines between the lines:

with open('output.csv', 'ab',) as fp