[Tutor] Append mode dilemma

biboy mendz bibsmendez at gmail.com
Wed Dec 9 20:02:22 CET 2009


> Luke Paireepinart wrote:
> That's because there is NOT a new line at the end of the file.
> It's a file you're appending to, it's up to YOU to create that new 
> line. And all files should end with newlines anyway (on linux).
> So modify your code so that you output a new line at the end of your 
> outputs.
>
>     fobj = open(fname, 'a')
>     fobj.write('\n'.join(all))
>     fobj.close()
>

Quickie hack just to achieve the newline. Doesn't python have a function 
that adds newline automatically in append mode?


fobj = open(fname, 'a')
fobj.write('\n'.join(all))
print
fobj.close()

-- 
Regards,
bibs M.

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>> Are you aware of how 'join' works?
>> try
>> print "#".join(['a','b','c'])
>> at the interactive prompt and see if you can't figure out why you're 
>> missing a newline at the end of your output.
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>> -Luke
>>
> Hi Luke,
>
> Thank you. To be honest I'm confused of the different string methods 
> like join(), split(), etc. Anyway I will practice them to see how they 
> work.
>


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