How to export beautifulsoup parsed data to a csv file

Question

I am using BeautifulSoup to parse data, and now I want to save it to a csv file. I am able to create a csv file; however, when I open the file it is blank. What should I write for writing to a csv file?

Script:

university = {}

for x in soup.find_all('p'):
    name_tag = x.find('strong')
    if name_tag != None:
    name = name_tag.text
    t = x.text
    m = re.findall('\$([0-9]*)', t)
    if m != []:
        print(name +', ' + m[0])

Part of output:

Harvard University:, 400
Stanford University:, 400
Stanford University:, 400

Writing to a csv file:

import csv

with open ('gifts.csv', 'w', encoding="utf-8") as file:
    writer=csv.writer(file)
    for row in university:
        writer.writerow(row)

Answer 1

You didn't add anything to your variable university , change your code to :

import csv
university = []

for x in soup.find_all('p'):
    name_tag = x.find('strong')
    if name_tag != None:
        name = name_tag.text
        t = x.text
        m = re.findall('\$([0-9]*)', t)
        if m != []:
            university.append([name +', ' + str(m[0]]) # append to variable university

with open('gifts.csv', 'w') as f:
    writer = csv.writer(f)
    for row in university:
        writer.writerow(row)