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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def to_csv(self, path, mode=WRITE_MODE, dialect='excel', compression=None, newline='', **fmtparams):
 """ Saves the sequence to a csv file. Each element should be an iterable which will be expanded to the elements of each row. :param path: path to write file :param mode: file open mode :param dialect: passed to csv.writer :param fmtparams: passed to csv.writer """


        if 'b' in mode:
            newline = None

        with universal_write_open(path, mode=mode, compression=compression,
                                  newline=newline) as output:
            csv_writer = csv.writer(output, dialect=dialect, **fmtparams)
            for row in self:
                csv_writer.writerow([six.u(str(element)) for element in row])