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On 2015-05-05 10:09, Kashif Rana wrote:
> When I am writing list of dictionaries to CSV file, the key
> 'schedule' has value 'Mar 2012' becomes Mar-12. 

How are you making this determination?  Are you looking at the raw
CSV output, or are you looking at the CSV file loaded into a
spreadsheet like Excel?

I suspect that it's a matter of the file being what you want, but
your spreadsheet mangling/reformatting it visually.

-tkc