line wrapping problem

[Kent Johnson]

S Borg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  I am parsing text from one document to another. I have a scheme
> similar to:
> 
>  for x in myfoobar:
>    print >> mytextfile, "%s    " % mydictionary[x],   #all on same line
>  print >> mytextfile, '\n'      #new line
> 
> 
> I am getting line breaks before my explicit line break. Am I
> unwittingly copying '\n' characters from the original file?

Where does mydictionary[x] come from? If it is from reading lines from a 
file it may contain trailing newlines.

Also
   print >> mytextfile, '\n'
will print two newlines, one explicit and one implicit in the print.

Kent