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Python

Posted by Henrik Christensen
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Henrik Christensen
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 38,322 Points

csv to excel problem

Hi,

I'm trying to scrape a single page for data for practice, but I'm having a problem with my .csv file - when I open it in excel all the data is displayed in a single column :-/

Any1 know how to fix this?

import csv
import scrapy


class CommunitySpider(scrapy.Spider):
    name = 'community'
    start_urls = ['https://teamtreehouse.com/community']

    def parse(self, response):
        with open('community.csv', 'a', newline='') as csvfile:
            writer = csv.writer(csvfile, dialect='excel')
            writer.writerow(['topic', 'has_been_answered'])

            for question in response.css('li.discussion-item'):
                topic = question.css('ul.discussion-tags li.discussion-tag a::text').extract_first()
                has_been_answered = 0
                if question.css('p.discussion-answer-info span svg.checkmark-icon'):
                    has_been_answered = 1

                writer.writerow([topic, str(has_been_answered)])