How can I export data from a website and write the contents to a text file?

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Wed Nov 18 11:57:58 EST 2015


On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 3:37 AM, ryguy7272 <ryanshuell at gmail.com> wrote:
>       text_file = open("C:/Users/rshuell001/Desktop/excel/Text1.txt", "wb")
>         z = str(link)
>         text_file.write(z + "\n")
>         text_file.write("\n")
>         text_file.close()

You're opening the file every time you go through the loop,
overwriting each time. Instead, open the file once, then start the
loop, and then close it at the end. You can use a 'with' statement to
do the closing for you, or you can do it the way you are here.

ChrisA



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