sorry for asking such beginner questions but i tried this and nothing wrote to my text file
for food, price, store in bs(food, price, store): out = open("test.txt", 'a') out.write (food + price + store) out.close() while if i write the following without the for i at least get something? out = open("test.txt", 'a') out.write (food + price + store) out.close() Scott David Daniels wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > the problem with writing to teh file immidiately is that it ends up > > writing all food items together, and then all store items and then all > > prices > > > > i want > > > > food, store, price > > food, store, price > > > Well, if it all fits in memory, append each to its own list, and then > either finally if you can or periodically if you must: > > for food, store, price in zip(foods, stores, prices): > <do some writing.> > > -- > -Scott David Daniels > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list