[Tutor] Iterating Lines in File and Export Results

[Alan Gauld]

On 02/10/14 16:47, John Doe wrote:

> def loop_extract():
>      with open('words.txt', 'r') as f:
>          for lines in f:
>              #print lines (I confirmed that each line is successfully printed)
>              with open('export.txt', 'w') as outf:

This opens and closes the file for each iteration of the inner loop.
You need this outside the loop beside the other with statement.

>                  outf.write(lines)

HTH


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