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 > > > I am getting line breaks before my explicit line break. Am I > unwittingly copying '\n' characters from the original file?
Where does mydictionary[x] come from? If it is from reading lines from a file it may contain trailing newlines. Also print >> mytextfile, '\n' will print two newlines, one explicit and one implicit in the print. Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list