Export to CSV#

Result sets come with a .csv(filename=None) method. This generates comma-separated text either as a return value (if filename is not specified) or in a file of the given name.

%load_ext sql
%%sql sqlite://
CREATE TABLE writer (first_name, last_name, year_of_death);
INSERT INTO writer VALUES ('William', 'Shakespeare', 1616);
INSERT INTO writer VALUES ('Bertold', 'Brecht', 1956);
Done.
1 rows affected.
1 rows affected.
[]
result = %sql SELECT * FROM writer
result.csv(filename="writer.csv")
*  sqlite://
Done.
import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv("writer.csv")
df
first_name last_name year_of_death
0 William Shakespeare 1616
1 Bertold Brecht 1956