writing output to file

[Mark McEahern]

> Inspired by an existing Perl script, I wrote this chunk of code,
> but instead of writing the result to the screen, I would like
> to write output to a another file.

f = file(output_filename, "w") # use "a" if you want to append
f.write(data) # to your heart's content
f.close()

You can also spell file as open, but file is preferred since that matches
the returned object's type.

Play around with the file descriptor in Python's interactive shell to see
other methods:

  $ python
  >>> f = file("junk", "w")
  >>> dir(f)

etc.

// m

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