writing output to file

[Ralf Claus]

"Allan Wermuth" <alw at gate2.dda.dk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> 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.
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
   dat=open('test.txt','w')
> for line in open('/etc/passwd').readlines() :
>    if line.strip()[0] == '#': continue
>
>  temp = line.split(':')
>   if int(temp[2]) > 100 :
>      print "%10s %30s" % (temp[0], temp[4])
        out="%10s %30s" % (temp[0], temp[4])
        dat.write(out)
    dat.close()

>
> How can I do that?
> It's possibly quite simple, in Perl it is ;-) , but I am trying to learn
> Python, so
> I would appreciate if someone would help me out.
>
> /Allan Wermuth
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