Question

Im new to python programming and need some help with some basic file I/O and list manipulation.

currently i have a list (s) that has these elements in it:

['taylor343', 'steven435', 'roger101\n']

what i need to do is print each line into new text files with only the 1 element in the text files as shown below:

file1.txt
taylor343

file2.txt
steven435

file3.txt
roger101

Im currently trying to work with this using a loop but i can only output into 1 text file

for x in list:  
    output.write(x+"\n")

How can i get it to write every single line of list into new text files (not just one)

Thank you

Answer 1

You need to open each new file you want to write into. As a quick example:

items = ['taylor', 'steven', 'roger']
filenames = ['file1', 'file2', 'file3']

for item, filename in zip(items, filenames):
    with open(filename, 'w') as output:
        output.write(item + '\n')