Export data from python to a txt file

[Ana Dionísio]

Hello!!!

I have this lists a=[1,3,5,6,10], b=[a,t,q,r,s] and I need to export it to a txt file and I can't use csv.

And I want the next format:

a 1 3 5 6 10
b a t q r s

I already have this code:

"f = open("test.txt", 'w')
f.write("a")
f.write("\n")
f.write("b")
f.write("\n")

for i in xrange(len(a)):
LDFile.write("\t")
LDFile.write(str(a))
LDFile.write("\t")
LDFile.write(str(b))

f.close()"

But it doesn't have the format I want. Can you help?

Thanks!

 

[Jason Swails]

Hello!!!

I have this lists a=[1,3,5,6,10], b=[a,t,q,r,s] and I need to export it to
a txt file and I can't use csv.

It would help if you showed exactly what you had in your program or in the
Python interpreter. For instance

a = [1, 3, 5, 6, 10]
b = [a, t, q, r, s]

won't work, since it interprets the letters in the b-list as variables
rather than strings. It would need to be

b = ['a', 't', 'q', 'r', 's']

or something equivalent. Assuming you had that part correct:

And I want the next format:

a 1 3 5 6 10
b a t q r s

I already have this code:

"f = open("test.txt", 'w')
f.write("a")
f.write("\n")
f.write("b")
f.write("\n")

for i in xrange(len(a)):
LDFile.write("\t")
LDFile.write(str(a))
LDFile.write("\t")
LDFile.write(str(b))

f.close()"

But it doesn't have the format I want. Can you help?

Walk through exactly what the computer is doing here. First it prints a,
then a newline, then b, then a newline:

--begin--
a
b
--end--

Then your for loop executes (notice LDFile and f are different file
objects, so they won't write to the same location). This will print a tab,
followed by the i'th element of a, followed by another tab, followed by the
i'th element of b. So this:

a 1 3 5 6 10
b a t q r s

--begin-- [tab] 1 [tab] a [tab] 3 [tab] t [tab] 5 [tab] q [tab]
6 [tab] r [tab] 10 [tab] s [tab]--end--

So the final file will look something like this:

a
b
1 a 3 t 5 q 6 r 10 s


which is obviously not what you want. The following code will do what you
want (although there are ways of doing this in less code, this is the most
straightforward):

f.write('a\t')
for element in a:
f.write(str(element) + '\t')
f.write('\n')
f.write('b\t')
for element in b:
f.write(str(element) + '\t')
f.write('\n')

HTH,
Jason

 

[rusi]

Hello!!!

I have this lists a=[1,3,5,6,10], b=[a,t,q,r,s] and I need to export it to a txt file and I can't use csv.

And I want the next format:

a 1 3 5 6 10
b a t q r s

I already have this code:

"f = open("test.txt", 'w')
 f.write("a")
 f.write("\n")
 f.write("b")
 f.write("\n")

 for i in xrange(len(a)):
    LDFile.write("\t")
    LDFile.write(str(a))
    LDFile.write("\t")
    LDFile.write(str(b))

 f.close()"

But it doesn't have the format I want. Can you help?

Thanks!

Dunno about LDFile. [Neither does google]

You can try:

a=[1,3,7,10,100]
"a " + " ".join(map(str,a))

'a 1 3 7 10 100'

 

[Mark Lawrence]

Hello!!!

I have this lists a=[1,3,5,6,10], b=[a,t,q,r,s] and I need to export it to a txt file and I can't use csv.

And I want the next format:

a 1 3 5 6 10
b a t q r s

I already have this code:

"f = open("test.txt", 'w')
f.write("a")

You'll have to write your data here.

f.write("\n")

And here.

f.write("b")
f.write("\n")

for i in xrange(len(a)):
LDFile.write("\t")
LDFile.write(str(a))
LDFile.write("\t")
LDFile.write(str(b))

You rarely need a loop like this in Python.
for x in a:
doSomething
is the usual way of writing this. But you don't need this anyway. Just
use the string join method as you can't use csv, which tells me it's
homework, so I'll leave you to it

 

[Vincent Vande Vyvre]

Le 29/03/13 18:33, Ana Dionísio a écrit :

Hello!!!

I have this lists a=[1,3,5,6,10], b=[a,t,q,r,s] and I need to export it to a txt file and I can't use csv.

And I want the next format:

a 1 3 5 6 10
b a t q r s

I already have this code:

"f = open("test.txt", 'w')
f.write("a")
f.write("\n")
f.write("b")
f.write("\n")

for i in xrange(len(a)):
LDFile.write("\t")
LDFile.write(str(a))
LDFile.write("\t")
LDFile.write(str(b))

f.close()"

But it doesn't have the format I want. Can you help?

Thanks!

Something like that:

Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Oct 1 2012, 22:07:21)
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

a=[1,3,5,6,10]
b=['a', 't', 'q', 'r', 's']
sta = " ".join([str(i) for i in a])
stb = " ".join(b)
txt = "a " + sta + '\nb ' + stb
f = open('test.txt', 'w')
f.write(txt)
f.close()
f = open('test.txt', 'r')
for line in f:

.... print line
....
a 1 3 5 6 10

b a t q r s

 

[Peter Otten]

I have this lists a=[1,3,5,6,10], b=[a,t,q,r,s] and I need to export it to
a txt file and I can't use csv.

What do you mean by "can't use csv"?

- You cannot get it to work with the csv module
- You are not allowed to use csv by your instructor
- Something else.

And I want the next format:

a 1 3 5 6 10
b a t q r s

I already have this code:

"f = open("test.txt", 'w')
f.write("a")
f.write("\n")
f.write("b")
f.write("\n")

for i in xrange(len(a)):
LDFile.write("\t")
LDFile.write(str(a))
LDFile.write("\t")
LDFile.write(str(b))

f.close()"

But it doesn't have the format I want. Can you help?

Thanks!