[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i have some output that returns a lines of tuples eg > > ('sometext1', 1421248118, 1, 'P ') > ('sometext2', 1421248338, 2, 'S ') > and so on > .... > > I tried this > re.sub(r" '() ",'',str(output)) but it only get rid of the ' and not > the braces. I need to write the output to a file such that > > sometext1, 1421248118, 1, P > sometext2, 1421248338, 2, S > > I also tried escaping , re.sub(r" '\(\) ",'',str(output)) but also did > not work > How can i get rid of the braces before writing to file? thanks
I'd use a csv.writer: >>> import csv, sys >>> data = [ ... ('sometext1', 1421248118, 1, 'P '), ... ('sometext2', 1421248338, 2, 'S ') ... ] >>> w = csv.writer(sys.stdout) >>> w.writerows(data) sometext1,1421248118,1,P sometext2,1421248338,2,S Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list