I am trying to write a list into the file. I used:
studentFile = open("students1.txt", "w")
for ele in studentList:
studentFile.write(str(ele) + "\n")
studentFile.close()
As a result, the output was:
['11609036', 'MIT', 'NE']
['11611262', 'MIT', 'MD']
['11613498', 'BIS', 'SA']
instead of:
11609036 MIT NE
11611262 MIT MD
11613498 BIS SA
How can I fix it?
Use .join to convert each sublist into a string:
studentFile.write(' '.join(ele) + "\n")
You may find the with statement which creates a context manager a more cleaner alternative for opening, writing to, and closing files:
with open("students1.txt", "w") as student_file:
for ele in studentList:
student_file.write(' '.join(ele) + "\n")
The space in between the items can be increased by modifying ' ' or using tab spacing as in '\t'.join.
How does your studentList list look like? I suspect its a nested list and you need another loop to pick individual elements.
studentList = [['11609036', 'MIT', 'NE'],
['11611262', 'MIT', 'MD'],
['11613498', 'BIS', 'SA']]
studentFile = open("students1.txt", "w")
for student in studentList:
for ele in student:
studentFile.write(str(ele) + "\t")
studentFile.write("\n")
studentFile.close()
