[FIXED] How can I avoid python converting big numbers to scientific notation?

Issue

I have data structured as follows:

['1404407396000',
 '484745869385011200',
 '0',
 '1922149633',
 "The nurse from the university said I couldn't go if I don't get another measles immunization...",
 '-117.14384195',
 '32.8110777']

I want to write this data to a csv file, but when I do, python converts the numbers to scientific notation (e.g 1.404E12).

I am using the following function to convert the list of lists to a csv:

def list_to_csv(data,name_of_csv_string):

    import csv

    """ 
    This function takes the list of lists created from the twitter data and 
    writes it to a csv.

    data - List of lists
    name_of_csv_string  -  What do you think this could be?

    """

    with open(name_of_csv_string + ".csv", "wb") as f:
        writer=csv.writer(f)      
        writer.writerows(data)

How can I avoid this?

Solution

By using the format specification mini language described here:

https://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html

Search for: 7.1.3.1. Format Specification Mini-Language

Answered By - Jacques de Hooge

Answer Checked By - Mary Flores (PHPFixing Volunteer)