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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook
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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook

by Edward Snajder
March 2017
Beginner to intermediate
422 pages
8h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating a program to log and append data to a CSV file

A lot of times, we will use the Pi Zero just for data collection and transmission. We can use the power of Python to collect data on our Pi and save it to a CSV file for importing into spreadsheets or databases. Python has a CSV library for precisely this purpose, as a part of its vast collection of data manipulation tools.

Getting ready

If you are continuing with building your rpz_log_analysis.py file, then you don't need to do anything more in preparation. If you'd like to see the code up to this point in the recipe, you can find it in the /ch4/ directory as rpz_log_analysis_csv.py.

How to do it...

  1. We're going to add another feature to our Raspberry Pi Zero log analysis program. This function ...
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