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The delimiter and lineterminator Keyword Arguments in Python.

Let's Say you want to separate cells with a tab character instead of a comma and you want the rows to be double-spaced. enter the following on your interactive shell to excute practically.

import csv
csvFile = open('example.tsv','w',newline='')

csvWriter = csv.writer(csvFile, delimiter='\t', lineterminator='\n\n')
csvWriter.writerow(['Laliga','Premier-League','serie-A','Bundesliga'])


csvWriter.writerow(['eggs','bacon','ham'])


csvWriter.writerow(['mudyrk','Reece-James','cucurella','Malo-Gusto','pektovic','palmer'])


csvFile.close()
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This changes the delimiter and line terminator characters in your file. The delimiter is the character that appears between cells on a row. By default, the delimiter for a CSV file is a comma. The line terminator is the character that comes at the end of a row. By default, the line terminator
is a newline. You can change characters to different values by using the d­elimiter and lineterminator keyword arguments with csv.writer().
Passing delimeter='\t' and lineterminator='\n\n' changes the character between cells to a tab and the character between rows to two newlines.We then call writerow() three times to give us three rows when excuted the produces the following output:

Laliga  Premier-League  serie-A Bundesliga

eggs    bacon   ham

mudyrk  Reece-James cucurella   Malo-Gusto  pektovic    palmer

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Now that our cells are separated by tabs, we’re using the file extension.tsv, for tab-separated values.

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