Question

I’m new in python, I have a running code that extracts data from a web service and put it in a list and write it on a text file. When I run this code and open the text file, the data is continuous. I need something like in every line in text file, it will display 5 elements and will go to next line and write the next 5 elements and so on. Hope you can help me out on this or suggestion on other way to do this. Here’s the code.

f = open("test.txt", "w")

for item in test:
    f.write("%s    |    " % item)
f.close()

The result looks like this:

data1, data2, data3, data4, data5, data6, data7, data8......................

It should be in this format:

data   |   data2   |   data3   |   data4   |
data5  |   data6   |   data7   |   data8   |
data9  |   data10  |   data11  |   data12  |

I hope I can have your inputs. Thank you!

Answer 1

for i, item in enumerate(test):
    if i and i % 4 == 0:
        f.write("\n")
    f.write("%-9s|   " % item)