import cStringIO import codecs import csv class CsvWriter: """ A CSV writer which will write rows to CSV file "f", which is encoded in the given encoding. from https://docs.python.org/2/library/csv.html """ def __init__(self, f, dialect=csv.excel, encoding="utf-8"): # Redirect output to a queue self.queue = cStringIO.StringIO() self.writer = csv.writer( self.queue, dialect=dialect, delimiter="\t", quotechar='"', quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL, ) self.stream = f self.encoder = codecs.getincrementalencoder(encoding)() def clean(self, cell): return unicode(cell) if cell else "-" def writerow(self, row): self.writer.writerow([self.clean(s).encode("utf-8") for s in row]) # Fetch UTF-8 output from the queue ... data = self.queue.getvalue() data = data.decode("utf-8") # ... and reencode it into the target encoding data = self.encoder.encode(data) # write to the target stream self.stream.write(data) # empty queue self.queue.truncate(0) def writerows(self, rows): for row in rows: self.writerow(row)