Simple file writing techiques ...

[Ganesan Rajagopal]

>>>>> cdecarlo  <cdecarlo at gmail.com> writes:

> fout = open('somefile','w')
> for line in convertedData:
>   fout.write("%s\n" % line)
> fout.close()

>  -- or --

> fout = open('somefile','w')
> fout.write("%s" % '\n'.join(convertedData))
> fout.close()

> ... or maybe some hybrid of the two which writes chunks of the
> convertedData list out in one shot ...

The second option would be definitely faster. 

> An issue that I'm probably most concerned with is scalabitiy, what if
> the file was huge, like some sort of log file. 

Considering that you've already read in the whole file into a list, it's too
late to worry about scalability when writing out :-). Have you considered
the fileinput module?

Ganesan

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Ganesan Rajagopal