Writing to a file

[John Gordon]

In <mailman.1249.1301065649.1189.python-list at python.org> <jyoung79 at kc.rr.com> writes:

> Just curious how others view the 2 examples below for creating and 
> writing to a file in Python (in OS X).  Is one way better than the other?  
> If it was a large amount of text, would the 'os.system' call be a bad 
> way to do it?

The write() way is much better.  (However, I'm not sure it will do what
you were expecting with the tilde in the file path.)

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