Here’s a little function for exporting an attribute table from ArcGIS to a CSV file. The function takes two arguments, these are a file-path to the input feature class or table and a file-path for the output CSV file (see example down further).

First import the necessary modules.

import arcpy, csv

Inside the function we use ArcPy to get a list of the field names.

def tableToCSV(input_tbl, csv_filepath):
    fld_list = arcpy.ListFields(input_tbl)
    fld_names = [fld.name for fld in fld_list]

We then open a CSV file to write the data to.

    with open(csv_filepath, 'wb') as csv_file:
        writer = csv.writer(csv_file)

The first row of the output CSV file contains the header which is the list of field names.

        writer.writerow(fld_names)

We then use the ArcPy SearchCursor to access the attributes in the table for each row and write each row to the output CSV file.

        with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(input_tbl, fld_names) as cursor:
            for row in cursor:
                writer.writerow(row)

And close the CSV file.

    csv_file.close()

Full script example…

import arcpy, csv

def tableToCSV(input_tbl, csv_filepath):
    fld_list = arcpy.ListFields(input_tbl)
    fld_names = [fld.name for fld in fld_list]
    with open(csv_filepath, 'wb') as csv_file:
        writer = csv.writer(csv_file)
        writer.writerow(fld_names)
        with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(input_tbl, fld_names) as cursor:
            for row in cursor:
                writer.writerow(row)
        print csv_filepath + " CREATED"
    csv_file.close()

fc = r"C:\Users\******\Documents\ArcGIS\Default.gdb\my_fc"
out_csv = r"C:\Users\******\Documents\output_file.csv"

tableToCSV(fc, out_csv)

Feel free to ask questions, comment, or help build upon this example.