Seperate entities in text file

[bigdazza]

Hi all,
I am having problems writing seperate data entiries into a file. The code (listed below) keeps on appending the data into one long string, so I cannot read the data item back into a variable.
e.g if I enter 5 data values (1 [return] 2 [return] 3 [return] 4 [return] 5[return]} instead of writing the values as 1,2,3,4,5 into the file, it writes it as a string 1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n. So when I try to read the first value into a variable, I get 1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n instead of 1. I am trying to get the program to write and read back each number individually.
I have even tried opening and closing the file with each data input, hoping that this would give me individual entries in the file, but this did not work either
I hope this makes sense.

Thanks in advance

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#Appending text to file   for i in range(5):     new_file=open("test.txt",mode="a+",encoding="utf-8")     er=input("Enter some text:")     rt=er+"\n"     new_file.write(rt)     new_file.close()   #Reading data from test.txt new_file=open("test.txt","r")     #for line in new_file: for line in range(5):     x=new_file.read()     print(x) new_file.close()

[snippsat]

A little more modern way,with with open() and f-string.
Can trow away close(),it's done automatically.

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with open('test1.txt', 'w')  as f_out:     for times in range(5):         er = input("Enter some text: ")         f_out.write(f'{er}\n')   with open('test1.txt') as f:     numbers = [int(i.strip()) for i in f]     print(numbers) # [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

The first part dos the same as your code,so have 1\n2\n..ect
When i read it back strip of \n make integer list in one go(list comprehension).
Many times read(),readline() or readlines() is not needed,as can iterate over file object as i do with f.