Writer classes

A FileWriteStep can be used with different Writers.

CSVWriter(filename[, header])	Write data to a comma-separated-values file.
ExcelWriter(filename[, header])	Write data to a new Excel (XLSX) spreadsheet file.
JSONWriter(filename, **kwargs)	Write data to a Javascript-Object-Notation file.
PPrintWriter(**kwargs)	A data writer class that prints() for testing purposes.

CSVWriter

class CSVWriter(filename, header=False, **kwargs)

Write data to a comma-separated-values file.

__init__(filename, header=False, **kwargs)

Create a new CSV writer instance.

Parameters:

• filename (str) – The filename to write the file to.
• header (bool) – Write the column names in the first row?
• dialect (csv.Dialect) – A csv writing dialect, defaults to csv.excel.
• quoting (int) – A quoting method, one of QUOTE_MINIMAL (0), QUOTE_ALL (1), QUOTE_NONNUMERIC (2) or QUOTE_NONE (3), defaults to 2.
• delimiter (str) – Overwrite dialect’s delimiter attribute, defaults to ';'.
• quotechar (str) – Overwrite dialect’s quotechar attribute, defaults to '"'.
• encoding (str) – Encoding to use when writing the file, defaults to 'utf-8'.

ExcelWriter

class ExcelWriter(filename, header=False, **kwargs)

Write data to a new Excel (XLSX) spreadsheet file.

__init__(filename, header=False, **kwargs)

Create a new Excel file writer.

Parameters:

• filename (str) – The filename to write our xlsx file to.
• header (bool) – Wether to write a header row with column names.
• sheet_name (str) – Sheet name in the generated Excel file.

JSONWriter

class JSONWriter(filename, **kwargs)

Write data to a Javascript-Object-Notation file.

__init__(filename, **kwargs)

Create a new JSON file writer.

Parameters:

• filename (str) – The filename to write the file to.
• kwargs – Options to be passed down to json.dump()

PPrintWriter

class PPrintWriter(**kwargs)

A data writer class that prints() for testing purposes.

__init__(**kwargs)

Create a new Pretty-print writer.

Parameters:kwargs – Options to be passed down to pprint.pprint()