[Tutor] output formatting

[Matt Domeier]

Hi Wayne,

Yes, that should work perfectly, but it is in writing files that I'm  
having the problem. I'm still very new to python, so I only know to  
use something like filename.write(str(listname)) to write my list to a  
file..
Is there a straightforward method of combining the ease of the print  
function setup that you suggested with write? Or could I somehow use  
the print function itself to write to the file (rather than just  
output to my shell/prompt)?

Thanks!

Quoting W W <srilyk at gmail.com>:

> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Matt Domeier <domeier at umich.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a series of lists that I need to output into files with a specific
>> format. Specifically, I need to have line breaks after each entry of the
>> list, and I need to do away with the ['..'] that accompany the data after I
>> transform the list into a string. Can I simply append a '\n' to the end of
>> all the list entries in order to enact line breaks?
>>
>
> Is this what you're looking for?
>
> In [3]: print '\n'.join(['the quick brown fox', 'jumps over', 'the lazy
> dog'])
> the quick brown fox
> jumps over
> the lazy dog
>
> HTH,
> Wayne
>