line wrapping problem

[Peter Otten]

S Borg wrote:

> I am parsing text from one document to another. I have a scheme
> similar to:
> 
>  for x in myfoobar:
>    print >> mytextfile, "%s    " % mydictionary[x],   #all on same line

   print >> mytextfile      # minimal fix

> I am getting line breaks before my explicit line break. Am I
> unwittingly copying '\n' characters from the original file?
> How should I fix this(What is the 'Pythonic' solution)?

The trailing spaces are probably an artifact of your implementation. Here's
one way to avoid them:

print >> mytextfile, "     ".join(str(mydictionary[x]) for x in myfoobar)

Peter