[Tutor] creating a tab delimited filename

[Brian van den Broek]

jrlen balane said unto the world upon 2005-03-13 19:37:
> so for example, i am creating a text file with file.write()
> 
> how am i going to make the file a tab-delimited file??? any
> parameters needed???
> 

 >>> record1 = ['Foo', 'Bar', 'Baz']
 >>> record2 = ['Ham', 'Spam', 'Eggs']
 >>> records = [record1, record2]
 >>> lines = []
 >>> for record in records:
... 	lines.append('\t'.join(record) + '\n')
...
 >>> lines
['Foo\tBar\tBaz\n', 'Ham\tSpam\tEggs\n']
 >>> output_file = file('c:/output.txt', 'w')
 >>> output_file.writelines(lines)
 >>> output_file.close()
 >>>

HTH,

Brian vdB