Write a Dictionary to a CSV file

Question

I have a dictionary which contains the following:

{'Jim': ['1', '9', '5'], 'kim': ['8', '6', '0'], 'lim': ['10', '6', '1'], 'slim': ['8', '8', '2'], 'pimp': ['9', '9', '1'], 'sim': ['8', '7', '1']}

My question is: How do i write all of this into a CSV file?

It should write and appear something like this in the CSV file:

name xyz

name2 xyz

name 3 xyz

...

I have tried:

with open('file.csv', 'wb') as csvfile: 
    wr = csv.writer(csvfile)
    wr.writerow(DICTIONARY) 

Answer 1

You can iterate over the dictionary items and write one row at a time:

import csv

D = {'Jim': ['1', '9', '5'], 'kim': ['8', '6', '0'], 'lim': ['10', '6', '1'],
     'slim': ['8', '8', '2'], 'pimp': ['9', '9', '1'], 'sim': ['8', '7', '1']}

with open('file.csv', 'w', newline='') as csvfile:
    writer = csv.writer(csvfile)      

    for name, items in D.items():    
        writer.writerow([name] + items)

Check csv.writer documentation here .
Note that Python dictionaries are unordered, ie this may not produce identical files on each run.

Answer 2

This code below enters the list of lists into separate columns (done by editting eugene's code)

with open("file.csv', 'w', newline='') as csvfile:
    writer = csv.writer(csvfile)  
    for name, items in DICTIONARY.items():    
        writer.writerow([name] + items)