python csv, writing headers only once

You can check if the file is empty

import csv
import os

headers = ['head1', 'head2']

for row in interator:
    with open('file.csv', 'a') as f:
        file_is_empty = os.stat('file.csv').st_size == 0
        writer = csv.writer(f, lineterminator='\n')
        if file_is_empty:
            writer.writerow(headers)
        writer.writerow(row)

Just another way:

with open(file_path, 'a') as file:
        w = csv.DictWriter(file, my_dict.keys())

        if file.tell() == 0:
            w.writeheader()

        w.writerow(my_dict)

You could check if file is already exists and then don't call writeheader() since you're opening the file with an append option.

Something like that:

import os.path


file_exists = os.path.isfile(filename)

with open (filename, 'a') as csvfile:
    headers = ['TimeStamp', 'light', 'Proximity']
    writer = csv.DictWriter(csvfile, delimiter=',', lineterminator='\n',fieldnames=headers)

    if not file_exists:
        writer.writeheader()  # file doesn't exist yet, write a header

    writer.writerow({'TimeStamp': dic['ts'], 'light': dic['light'], 'Proximity': dic['prox']})