On Wed, 05 Jul 2017 20:37:38 +0300, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > Sam Chats writes: > > > On Wednesday, July 5, 2017 at 9:09:18 PM UTC+5:30, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2017-07-05, Sam Chats <blahb...@blah.org> wrote: > >> > >> > I want to write, say, 'hello\tworld' as-is to a file, but doing > >> > f.write('hello\tworld') makes the file look like: > >> [...] > >> > How can I fix this? > >> > >> That depends on what you mean by "as-is". > >> > >> Seriously. > >> > >> Do you want the single quotes in the file? Do you want the backslash > >> and 't' character in the file? > >> > >> When you post a question like this it helps immensely to provide an > >> example of the output you desire. > > > > I would add to add the following couple lines to a file: > > > > for i in range(5): > > print('Hello\tWorld') > > > > Consider the leading whitespace to be a tab. > > import sys > > lines = r''' > for line in range(5): > print('hello\tworld') > ''' > > print(lines.strip()) > > sys.stdout.write(lines.strip()) > sys.stdout.write('\n')
Thanks! But will this work if I already have a string through a string variable, rather than using it directly linke you did (by declaring the lines variable)? And, will this work while writing to files? Sam -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list