[Tutor] write a file

[John Purser]

Thanks Karl.  I hadn't seen writelines() before.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Pflästerer [mailto:sigurd at 12move.de]
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 12:53 PM
To: tutor at python.org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] write a file


On 24 Mar 2004, APQ LE <- apqle75 at hotmail.com wrote:

> I'm trying to open a file, read its content and write its content to a
> new file.  Pretty much like copying a file.  Here is what I have

> ========
> in = open ("a.txt", "r")
> out = open ("b.txt", "w")
> for line in in.readlines()
>    out.write(line)

> in.close()
> out.close()

> ==========
> However, the output isn't as expected.  There is additional empty line
> comes after every existing line.  So, the output file is bigger than
> the original file.

What OS are you working on?

Furthermore the above code is overcomplicated; I assume you use a recent
version of Python.  Then you could write:

inf = file('a.txt')
out = file('b.txt', 'w')
out.writelines(inf)
out.close()
inf.close()

writelines() takes an iterator as argument: here the open file object.




   Karl
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