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print a line break in writelines() method - leodavinci1990 - Oct-12-2020
lines=["Line 1","Line 2"]
f=open(r"C:\Users\....\Documents\somefile.txt","w")
f.writelines(lines)
f.close()
How to print a line breaker between items in lines variable (list) when placing them in the text file?
RE: print a line break in writelines() method - DeaD_EyE - Oct-12-2020
First: Use a context manager. It closes your file automatically, when the block is left.
with open(r"C:\Users\....\Documents\somefile.txt", "w") as fd:
for line in lines:
fd.write(line)
fd.write("\n")Doing this with writelines can be done with a trick:from itertools import repeat, chain
with open(r"C:\Users\....\Documents\somefile.txt", "w") as fd:
line_sep = repeat("\n")
line_iter = chain.from_iterable(zip(lines, line_sep))
fd.writelines(line_iter)