[Tutor] Append mode dilemma

[Luke Paireepinart]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:02 PM, biboy mendz <bibsmendez at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>  Luke Paireepinart wrote:
>> That's because there is NOT a new line at the end of the file.
>> It's a file you're appending to, it's up to YOU to create that new line.
>> And all files should end with newlines anyway (on linux).
>> So modify your code so that you output a new line at the end of your
>> outputs.
>>
>>    fobj = open(fname, 'a')
>>    fobj.write('\n'.join(all))
>>    fobj.close()
>>
>>
> Quickie hack just to achieve the newline. Doesn't python have a function
> that adds newline automatically in append mode?


Why would it need a function for this?  Some people might not want a
newline, so it can't be automatically enabled.

>
>
>
> fobj = open(fname, 'a')
> fobj.write('\n'.join(all))
> print
> fobj.close()


This won't work unless you have STDOUT redirected to your file.  It would be
better just to do
 fobj.write('\n'.join(all) + '\n')

which is shorter than a function call that would enable this feature anyway.
This isn't a hack, this is how you're supposed to do this.

-Luke
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