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12.20.4 Writer Objects</A>
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<tt class="class">Writer</tt> objects (<tt class="class">DictWriter</tt> instances and objects returned by
the <tt class="function">writer()</tt> function) have the following public methods. A
<var>row</var> must be a sequence of strings or numbers for <tt class="class">Writer</tt>
objects and a dictionary mapping fieldnames to strings or numbers (by
passing them through <tt class="function">str()</tt> first) for <tt class="class">DictWriter</tt>
objects. Note that complex numbers are written out surrounded by parens.
This may cause some problems for other programs which read CSV files
(assuming they support complex numbers at all).
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Write the <var>row</var> parameter to the writer's file object, formatted
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Write all the <var>rows</var> parameters (a list of <var>row</var> objects as
described above) to the writer's file object, formatted
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