csv.writer writing each line into separate cell/column

Question

Objective : to extract each paragraph from from a large text file and store it in .csv file. new line("\n") is acting as a delimiter.

this is code im using:

import csv
input_file = open('path', 'r')
output_file = open('path', 'a+')
writer = csv.writer(output_file)
list = []
for line in input_file:
    if line != "\n":
        list.append(line)
    else:
        writer.writerow(list)
        list.clear()

the goal here is to parse & append each line into a list until we encounter a "\n" and store the content present in the list into a single cell in the .csv file.

code is working fine, but due to some reason, each line is been printed in separate column/cell instead of printing the entire paragraph into a single cell.

expected output:
row 1:this is stackoverflow
python language is used.

current output: row 1: this is stackoverflow | python language is used.

what am I missing here?

Answer 1

writerow method writes the contents in a single row, i.e. each element in a separate column in the same row.

Wouldn't this do the trick for you?

import csv

with open(input_path, 'r') as f:
    paragraphs = f.read().split('\n\n')

with open(output_path, 'w') as f:
    writer = csv.writer(f)
    writer.writerows(enumerate(paragraphs))