May 28, 2011 · the_file.write('Hello\n') From The Documentation: Do not use os.linesep as a line terminator when writing files opened in text mode (the default); use a single '\n' instead, on all …

May 27, 2010 · I want to append a newline to my string every time I call file.write(). What's the easiest way to do this in Python?

Jan 16, 2011 · with open('/path/to/file', 'a+') as file: file.write("Additions to file") file.close() The a+ in the open(...) statement instructs to open the file in append mode and allows read and write …

This uses a backslash escape, \n, which Python converts to a newline character in string literals. It just concatenates your string, name, and that newline character into a bigger string, which gets …

Nov 6, 2011 · How do you tell Python where to save a text file? For example, my computer is running the Python file off my desktop. I want it to save all the text file in my documents folder, …

When you say "replace the old content that's in the file with the new content", you need to read in and transform the current contents data = file.read(). You don't mean "blindly overwrite it …

an improvement would be to construct the readme_text before you open the file. Also note that when opening a file in text mode ("r", "w"), Python already handles the platform dependent …

In Python's built-in open function, what is the difference between the modes w, a, w+, a+, and r+? The documentation implies that these all allow writing to the file, and says that they open the …

How do I write JSON data stored in the dictionary data to a file? f = open ('data.json', 'wb') f.write (data) This gives the error: TypeError: must be string or buffer, not dict

If you want to read and write encoded files in Python, best use the codecs module. Pasting text between the terminal and applications is difficult, because you don't know which program will …