Appending an asterisk to the end of each line

Seymore4Head Seymore4Head at Hotmail.invalid
Tue Jul 5 18:29:26 EDT 2016


On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 18:27:25 -0400, Joel Goldstick
<joel.goldstick at gmail.com> wrote:

>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?

Yes.  I just reinstalled Python.  Python is not installed in the same
folder and I don't remember if it needs to have path entered.





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