Export Pandas dataframe to a CSV file

Suppose you are working on a Data Science project and you tackle one of the most important tasks, i.e, Data Cleaning. After data cleaning, you don’t want to lose your cleaned data frame, so you want to save your cleaned data frame as a CSV. Let us see how to export a Pandas DataFrame to a CSV file. 
Pandas enable us to do so with its inbuilt to_csv() function.
First, let’s create a sample data frame 

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# importing the module
import pandas as pd

# making the data
scores = {'Name': ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'],
          'Score': [90, 80, 95, 20]}

# creating the DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame(scores)

# displaying the DataFrame
print(df)

Output :

Now let us export this DataFrame as a CSV file named your_name.csv :

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# converting to CSV file
df.to_csv("your_name.csv")

Output

File Successfully saved

In case you get a UnicodeEncodeError, just pass the encoding parameter with ‘utf-8’ value.

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# converting to CSV file
df.to_csv("your_name.csv", encoding = 'utf-8')

Possible Customizations

1. Include index number
You can choose if you want to add automatic index. The default value is True. To set it to False.

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# converting to CSV file
df.to_csv('your_name.csv', index = False)

Output :

2. Export only selected columns 
If you want to export only a few selected columns, you may pass it in to_csv() as ‘columns = [“col1”, “col2”] 

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# converting to CSV file
df.to_csv("your_name.csv", columns = ['Name'])

Output :

3. Export header 
You can choose if you want your column names to be exported or not by setting the header parameter to True or False. The default value is True.

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# converting to CSV file
df.to_csv('your_name.csv', header = False)

Output :

4. Handle NaN
In case your data frame has NaN values, you can choose it to replace by some other string. The default value is ”. 

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# converting to CSV file
df.to_csv("your_name.csv", na_rep = 'nothing')

5. Separate with something else 
If instead of separating the values with a ‘comma’, we can separate it using custom values. 

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# converting to CSV file
# separated with tabs
df.to_csv("your_name.csv", sep ='\t')

Output :