S Borg wrote: > Hello, > > I am parsing text from one document to another. I have a scheme > similar to: > > for x in myfoobar: > print >> mytextfile, "%s " % mydictionary[x], #all on same line > print >> mytextfile, '\n' #new line >
You are using the print command to output the text to your file. This will always put a '\n' at the end of lines (as well as your explicit) one. The only time it doesn't do this is if the line ends with a trailing comma, in which case it just adds a space. The usual way is to write to yhour file object using : mytextfile.write( mytextfile, "%s " % mydictionary[x],) All the best, Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml > > I am getting line breaks before my explicit line break. Am I > unwittingly copying '\n' characters from the original file? > How should I fix this(What is the 'Pythonic' solution)? > > thanks, > -S -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
