Appending an asterisk to the end of each line

Joel Goldstick joel.goldstick at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 18:27:25 EDT 2016


On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 6:05 PM, Seymore4Head
<Seymore4Head at hotmail.invalid> wrote:
> import os
>
> f_in = open('win.txt', 'r')
> f_out = open('win_new.txt', 'w')
>
> for line in f_in.read().splitlines():
>     f_out.write(line + " *\n")
>
> f_in.close()
> f_out.close()
>
> os.rename('win.txt', 'win_old.txt')
> os.rename('win_new.txt', 'win.txt')
>
>
> I just tried to reuse this program that was posted several months ago.
> I am using a text flie that is about 200 lines long and have named it
> win.txt.  The file it creates when I run the program is win_new.txt
> but it's empty.
>
>
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Are you running program in same folder as text file?

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