title: How to print variable as a string instead of as a count?
body: <p>I am trying to search multiple text files for the count of 'plate appearances' which occurs when
      <code>temp_array2[0] == "play" and temp_array2[2] == "1"</code>:</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to export this as a .csv file however, when I print the 'count of plate appearances' it appears as a count, not a string (and I think it needs to be a string to export to .csv).</p>
  
  <p>The code I have got so far is below.</p>
  
  <pre><code>import os
  
  input_folder = 'files'  # path of folder containing the multiple text files
  
  # create a list with file names 
  data_files = [os.path.join(input_folder, file) for file in                 
  os.listdir(input_folder)]
  
  # open csv file for writing
  csv = open('myoutput.csv', 'w')  
  def write_to_csv(line):
      print(line)
      csv.write(line)
  
  
  j=0 # initialise as 0
  count_of_plate_appearances=0 # initialise as 0
  
  
  for file in data_files:
      with open(file, 'r') as f:  # use context manager to open files
          for line in f:
              lines = f.readlines()
              i=0      
              while i &lt; len(lines):
                  temp_array = lines[i].rstrip().split(",")
                  if temp_array[0] == "id":
                      j=0
                      count_of_plate_appearances=0
                      game_id = temp_array[1]
                      awayteam = lines[i+2].rstrip().split(",")[2]
                      hometeam = lines[i+3].rstrip().split(",")[2]
                      date = lines[i+5].rstrip().split(",")[2]
                      output_for_csv=(game_id,date,hometeam, awayteam)
                      print(output_for_csv)
                      #csv.write(','.join(output_for_csv) + '\n') #write to the csv file. This works
  
                      for j in range(i+46,i+120,1): #only check for plate appearances this when temp_array[0] == "id"
                          temp_array2 = lines[j].rstrip().split(",") #create new array to check for plate apperances
                          if temp_array2[0] == "play" and temp_array2[2] == "1": # plate apperance occurs when these are true
                         count_of_plate_appearances=count_of_plate_appearances+1
                      #print(count_of_plate_appearances)
                      output_for_csv2=(game_id,date,hometeam, awayteam,[count_of_plate_appearances]) #this is what I want to outpu to the CSV
                      print(output_for_csv2) 
                      #csv.write(','.join(output_for_csv2) + '\n') #the code does not run when this is uncommented
  
                      i=i+1
  
                  else:
                      i=i+1
  
                      j=0
                      count_of_plate_appearances=0
                  #quit()
  
  
  csv.close() 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The output is as follows</p>
  
  <pre><code>('ARI201803300', '2018/03/30', 'ARI', 'COL')
  ('ARI201803300', '2018/03/30', 'ARI', 'COL', [35])
  ('ARI201803310', '2018/03/31', 'ARI', 'COL')
  ('ARI201803310', '2018/03/31', 'ARI', 'COL', [33])
  ('ARI201804020', '2018/04/02', 'ARI', 'LAN')
  ('ARI201804020', '2018/04/02', 'ARI', 'LAN', [32])
  ('ARI201804030', '2018/04/03', 'ARI', 'LAN')
  ('ARI201804030', '2018/04/03', 'ARI', 'LAN', [38])
  ('ARI201804040', '2018/04/04', 'ARI', 'LAN')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>*note there are 2 lines of out put for each. The first one is without 'count of plate appearances' and this prints to pdf fine. The second line is what I want to print. </p>
  
  <p>I think it should look like this in order to get the .csv output. </p>
  
  <pre><code>('ARI201803300', '2018/03/30', 'ARI', 'COL', '35')
  ('ARI201803310', '2018/03/31', 'ARI', 'COL', '33')
  ('ARI201804020', '2018/04/02', 'ARI', 'LAN', '32')
  ('ARI201804030', '2018/04/03', 'ARI', 'LAN', '38')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any suggestions on how I can do this? </p>