[Tutor] how avoid writing a newline?

[Jason Staudenmayer]

You should have a comma after the "#" in the highlighted print statement, that should repress the new line (I'm guessing that's the line you're talking about)
 
print >> f,t,"#",
 
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From: tutor-bounces+jasons=adventureaquarium.com at python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces+jasons=adventureaquarium.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Tommy Kaas
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 10:40 AM
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Subject: [Tutor] how avoid writing a newline?



	I'm using Activepython 2.6.6 on PC/Win7

	 

	I have made a small scraper script as an exercise for myself. 

	It scrapes the name and some details of the first 25 billionaires on the Forbes list.

	It works and write the result in a text file, with the columns separated by "#"

	It takes the name from the link (t = i.string) - open the link and scrape details from the next page.

	But I can't find a way to write the name (the variable t) one and only one time in the beginning of the line.

	As t is written now I get it in the beginning of the line but I also get a newline. 

	Can I avoid that in a simple way?

	 

	Thanks in advance for any help

	Tommy

	 

	 

	from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

	from mechanize import Browser

	f = open("forbes.txt", "w")

	br = Browser()

	url = "http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/10/billionaires-2010_The-Worlds-Billionaires_Rank.html"

	page = br.open(url)

	html = page.read()

	soup = BeautifulSoup(html)

	table = soup.find("table")

	l = table.findAll('a')

	for i in l[5:]:

	    t = i.string

	    print t #to the monitor

	    

	    br.follow_link(text_regex=r"(.*?)"+t+"(.*?)")

	    tekst = br.response().read()

	    soup = BeautifulSoup(tekst)

	    table1 = soup.find('table', id='billTable')

	    rows = table1.findAll('tr')

	    print >> f, t,"#" 

	    for tr in rows:

	        tds = tr.findAll(text=True)

	        print >> f, tds[1].string,"#",tds[2].string,"#", 

	    print >> f, '\r\n'

	 

	f.close()

	 

	  

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