Python 3 Script to Convert Text File to CSV and Save it in Local File System Using csv Module in Command Line

Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be converting the text file to csv and saving it inside the local file system using the csv module in python. All the full source code of the application is shown below.

Get Started

In order to get started you need to install the csv module using the pip command as shown below

pip install csv

After that you need to create the app.py file and copy paste the following code

app.py

import csv

with open('file.txt') as report:
    reader = csv.reader(report, delimiter="\\")
    with open('output.csv', 'w', newline='') as csvfile:
        writer = csv.writer(csvfile)
        for line in reader:
            writer.writerow(line)

import csv

with open('file.txt') as report:

reader = csv.reader(report, delimiter="\\")

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

writer = csv.writer(csvfile)

for line in reader:

writer.writerow(line)

As you can see we are importing the csv module at the very top of the file and then we are opening the input text file called file.txt and then we are reading it using the open() method in python. And after that we are using the reader() method of the csv module to convert the text file to csv using the delimiter. And then we are saving the output csv file using the open() method. And then we are writing the content of the text file to the csv output file using the writer() and writerrow() method