May 28, 2011 · If you want to avoid using write() or writelines() and joining the strings with a newline yourself, you can pass all of your lines to print(), and the newline delimiter and your …

The code you've provided produces a file named file with the desired lines. Perhaps you meant to save it as "file.txt". Also, the 'b' in the 'wb' flag tells the code to write the file in binary mode …

Oct 23, 2017 · I want to append a newline to my string every time I call file.write(). What's the easiest way to do this in Python?

In between each appended line, the os.linesep.join(lines) inserts os.linesep which is the correct linebreak string for the current operating system. For info, joining a list into one string is much …

Does this file exist for humans, or other programs with clear interoperability requirements? If you are just trying to serialize a list to disk for later use by the same python app, you should be …

I am trying to output the result from a Python script to a text file where each output should be saved to a line. f1=open('./output.txt', 'a') f1.write(content + "\n") When I open output.txt with …

What I'm looking to do is create the file with element1 element2 element3 username@machine:/path$ I've tried different ways to loop through and append a "\n" but it …

Why am I unable to use a string for a newline in write () but I can use it in writelines ()? The idea is the following: if you want to write a single string you can do this with write(). If you have a …

Jan 18, 2011 · Let's say I have a text file containing: Dan Warrior 500 1 0 Is there a way I can edit a specific line in that text file? Right now I have this: #!/usr/bin/env python import io myfile = …

Jan 16, 2011 · When you open with "a" mode, the write position will always be at the end of the file (an append). You can open with "a+" to allow reading, seek backwards and read (but all …