On May 19, 2:46 pm, "Gre7g Luterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "aiwarrior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > If file.WriteLines( seq ) accepts a list and it says it writes lines, > > why does it write the whole list in a single line. Be cause of that > > the reverse of file.writelines(seq) is not file.readlines(). > > Are the assumptions i made correct? If yes why is this so? > > readlines() and writelines() are complimentary. readlines() leaves the line > terminators intact. It does not strip them off. writelines() does not add in > carriage returns for the same reason. For example: > > >>> D=open("temp.txt").readlines() > >>> D > > ['the quick\n', 'brown fox\n', 'jumps over\n', 'the lazy dog.'] > > >>> open("temp2.txt","w").writelines(D) > > will create temp2.txt to be identical to temp.txt.
I Haven't seen that way before thanks, both of you :D -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
