>>>>> cdecarlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > fout = open('somefile','w') > for line in convertedData: > fout.write("%s\n" % line) > fout.close()
> -- or -- > fout = open('somefile','w') > fout.write("%s" % '\n'.join(convertedData)) > fout.close() > ... or maybe some hybrid of the two which writes chunks of the > convertedData list out in one shot ... The second option would be definitely faster. > An issue that I'm probably most concerned with is scalabitiy, what if > the file was huge, like some sort of log file. Considering that you've already read in the whole file into a list, it's too late to worry about scalability when writing out :-). Have you considered the fileinput module? Ganesan -- Ganesan Rajagopal -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list