Writing List of Strings to Excel CSV File in Python

Very simple to fix, you just need to turn the parameter to writerow into a list.

for item in RESULTS:
    wr.writerow([item])

The csv.writer writerow method takes an iterable as an argument. Your result set has to be a list (rows) of lists (columns).

csvwriter.writerow(row)

Write the row parameter to the writer’s file object, formatted according to the current dialect.

Do either:

import csv
RESULTS = [
    ['apple','cherry','orange','pineapple','strawberry']
]
with open('output.csv','w') as result_file:
    wr = csv.writer(result_file, dialect='excel')
    wr.writerows(RESULTS)

or:

import csv
RESULT = ['apple','cherry','orange','pineapple','strawberry']
with open('output.csv','w') as result_file:
    wr = csv.writer(result_file, dialect='excel')
    wr.writerow(RESULT)