On Saturday, 5 May 2018 22:05:53 UTC+5:30, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 05/05/18 12:25, Sharan Basappa wrote: > > In my program, I have print statements for debugging. > > However, these are cluttering the display. So, I am trying to save > > these to a file but somehow I cant seem to get it correct. > > Use the logging module https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.html > for debugging, it's far easier in the longer term. > > > > > For example, the following are the print statement in my program: > > print("target_names\n",target_names) > > > > To print to a file, I have opened the file using - fh = > > open("ML_PY_2.log","w+") > > Beyond this, I see that fh.write has to be used but most of the examples I > > see only show how strings are saved. > > > > Can I get input how to covert the above print statement to save into the > > file? > > You'll need to do some string formatting. Take your pick from :- > > The old but still heavilly used C style > https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#old-string-formatting > > The new style > https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#format-string-syntax > > If you have Python 3.6 f-strings > > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > -- > My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask > what you can do for our language. > > Mark Lawrence
Mark, Thanks a lot. I will take a look at logging module. I have used logger module in perl which really takes out a lot of coding effort -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
