Can anyone please help with very simple code

[bee]

Hi, new to the forums here, ive joined to seek help on this single matter. Im not a pythonista but know i have it installed on my linux box.
Please could someone help me do the following simple task:

Open an existing csv file.

read each cell of column 2 (7770 items).

create a text file.

append a "," to each word from the csv and then append it to the text file.

close file

Please help, thankyou in advance :)

[metulburr]

csv tutorial
https://pymotw.com/2/csv/

[nilamo]

Regardless if this is for homework or just work, we don't write solutions.  Here, we help people learn, by fixing whatever mistakes/errors happen to be in their code.  So give it a try, and we'll help along the way.

But we won't do it for you.

[metulburr]

that should be our motto

[ichabod801]

"Bug fixes before solutions"

[bee]

Ok thanks.
I have got this far :

import csv, os

ef = open('towns.csv')
er = csv.reader(ef)
ed = list(er)

print (ed)

how do i print out as a string with a comma seperating the items please, this is not homework.

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update :

#! python2
# removeCsvHeader.py - Removes the header from all CSV files in the current
# working directory.

import csv, os

ef = open('towns.csv')
er = csv.reader(ef)
ed = list(er)



path = 'towns.txt'
towns = open(path,'w')
ni = towns.write(str(ed))
print (ed)
towns.close()
ef.close()

now its writing but also writing the brackets and single quotes around list items : ['item']

[ichabod801]

You want the join method of strings, that will combine them with commas for printing out. You would normally do it in a loop:

for line in data:
    out_file.write(','.join(line) + '\n')

Or you could do a double join on the comma and the newline.