DBF to CSV Conversion

Question

I have been trying all day to convert dbf files to CSV and cannot seem to get it. I have looked at various options and cannot seem to get one that will work. Here is one that I have been trying.

  import arcpy
  import dbf
  from arcpy import env
  import os

    def DBFtoCSV(path):
 '''Convert every DBF table into CSV table. 
'''
env.workspace = path
tablelist = arcpy.ListTables() # list tables in file
for table in tablelist: # iterate through every table
    #make sure you are just working with .dbf tables 
    if table.endswith('.dbf'):
        with dbf.Table(os.path.join(path, table)) as current_table:
            print current_table
            dbf.export(current_table)
    print "\n Processing ",table[:-4]+".csv table complete."
  if __name__ == '__main__':  
     path=r'path'
DBFtoCSV(path)

The error I am getting now is:

       Processing  name.csv table complete.

    Table:         F:/name.dbf
    Type:          Visual Foxpro
    Codepage:      cp1252 (Windows ANSI)
    Status:        read-write
    Last updated:  2014-02-24
    Record count:  4887170
    Field count:   23
    Record length: 235
    --Fields--
      0) respondent I binary
      1) report_yr I binary
      2) report_prd I binary
      3) sys_key I binary
      4) tr_id C(24)
      5) tr_contrac I binary null
      6) tr_begin_d T binary null
      7) tr_end_dat T binary null
      8) tr_timezon C(2) null
      9) tr_delv_ct C(4) null
     10) tr_delv_sp C(48) null
     11) tr_class_n C(4) null
     12) tr_term_na C(4) null
     13) tr_inc_nam C(4) null
     14) tr_inc_pea C(4) null
     15) tr_prod_na C(49) null
     16) tr_quantit B binary null
     17) tr_price B binary
     18) tr_units C(9) null
     19) tr_tot_tra B binary null
     20) tr_tot_tr2 B binary null
     21) tr_other M
     22) tr_revised T binary

     array('c', '\x00\x00')
    16
    (2, 0)
(235, array('c', '      \x8f\x04\x00\x00\xd9\x07\x00\x00\x03\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\
  x001Q09                    \x04\x00\x00\x001u%\x00\xe5\x03\x00\x00\x8au%\x00\x18
    X&\x05MPPNM PNM Switchyard                                  F   LT  M   FP  CAPA
 CITY                                         \x00\x00\x00\x00\x80+\x18A\xba\xda\
    x8a\xfdew\x0f@$/KW-MO  \x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xcd\xcc\xcc\xccR\xc47A\x
 00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'))
  ('0', 233, 2, 235, 0, 5, <function none at 0x110DF9B0>, <function none at 0x110D
 F9B0>)
array('c', '\x00\x00')
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "dbf_convert_stack.py", line 20, in <module>
DBFtoCSV(path)
  File "dbf_convert_stack.py", line 16, in DBFtoCSV
dbf.export(current_table)
  File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.4\lib\site-packages\dbf\ver_2.py", line 7859, in ex
  port
data = record[fieldname]
    File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.4\lib\site-packages\dbf\ver_2.py", line 2541, in __
getitem__
return self.__getattr__(item)
  File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.4\lib\site-packages\dbf\ver_2.py", line 2508, in __
 getattr__
value = self._retrieve_field_value(index, name)
    File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.4\lib\site-packages\dbf\ver_2.py", line 2693, in _r
etrieve_field_value
if ord(null_data[byte]) >> bit & 1:
IndexError: array index out of range

Answer 1

Instead of using dbfpy use my dbf module instead:

import dbf  # instead of dbfpy

def DBFtoCSV(path):
    '''Convert every DBF table into CSV table. '''
    env.workspace = path
    tablelist = arcpy.ListTables() # list tables in file
    for table in tablelist: # iterate through every table
        #make sure you are just working with .dbf tables 
        if table.endswith('.dbf'):
            with dbf.Table(table) as current_table:
                dbf.export(current_table)
        #keep track of processing
        print "\n Processing ",table[:-4]+".csv table complete."

Answer 2

This can be fairly straightforward with SearchCursor. All you really need to do is get the field names, pass that into the cursor, then write the complete row to a csv with Python's csv module.

import arcpy
import csv

dbf = table_name # Pass in the table you've identified
outputFile = '{}.csv'.format(dbf.split('.dbf')[0])

# Get the fields in the dbf to use for the cursor and csv header row.
fields = []
for field in arcpy.ListFields(dbf):
    fields.append(field.name)

# Make the csv.
with open(outputFile, 'wb') as output:
    dataWriter = csv.writer(output, delimiter=',', quotechar='"', quoting=csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL)

    # Write header row.
    dataWriter.writerow(fields)

    # Write each row of data to the csv.
    with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(dbf, fields) as cursor:
        for row in cursor:
            dataWriter.writerow(row)

print('Finished creating {}'.format(outputFile))