help with lists and writing to file in correct order

homepricemaps at gmail.com homepricemaps at gmail.com
Mon Dec 26 22:07:38 EST 2005


here is the write part:

out = open("test.txt", 'a')
        out.write (store+ food+ price + "\n")
        out.close()


Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:44:43 -0800, homepricemaps wrote:
>
> > sorry guys, here is the code
> >
> >     for incident in bs('a',  {'class' : 'price'}):
> >         price = ""
> >         for oText in incident.fetchText( oRE):
> >               price += oText.strip() + "','"
> >
> >     for incident in bs('div',  {'class' : 'store'}):
> >         store = ""
> >         for oText in incident.fetchText( oRE):
> >             store += oText.strip() + "','"
> >
> >     for incident in bs('h2',  {'id' : 'food'}):
> >       food = ""
> >       for oText in incident.fetchText( oRE):
> >             food += oText.strip() + "','"
>
>
> This is hardly all your code -- where is the part where you actually
> *write* something to the file? The problem is you are writing the same
> store and food to the file over and over again. After you have collected
> one line of store/food, you must write it to the file immediately, or at
> least save it in a list so you can write the lot at the end.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Steven.




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