How to transpose a dataset in a csv file?

If the whole file contents fits into memory, you can use

import csv
from itertools import izip
a = izip(*csv.reader(open("input.csv", "rb")))
csv.writer(open("output.csv", "wb")).writerows(a)

You can basically think of zip() and izip() as transpose operations:

a = [(1, 2, 3),
     (4, 5, 6),
     (7, 8, 9)]
zip(*a)
# [(1, 4, 7),
#  (2, 5, 8),
#  (3, 6, 9)]

izip() avoids the immediate copying of the data, but will basically do the same.

Same answer of nosklo (all credits to him), but for python3:

from csv import reader, writer 
with open('source.csv') as f, open('destination.csv', 'w') as fw: 
    writer(fw, delimiter=',').writerows(zip(*reader(f, delimiter=',')))

Transfer from input.csv to output.csv. Pandas can also help.

import pandas as pd
pd.read_csv('input.csv', header=None).T.to_csv('output.csv', header=False, index=False)