Question

Part of my script is taking values and putting them to a text file delimited by tabs. So I have this:

for linesplit in fileList:
    for i in range (0, len(linesplit)):
        t.write (linesplit[i]+'\t')

I get as an output in the file what I expect in the first line but in the following lines they all start with a \t in them, like is:

value1    value2    value3
    value1    value2    value3
    value1    value2    value3

Also, why don’t I need to add a t.write(‘\n’) after the second FOR loop to create the newlines? I would expect the code above to produce one long line of tab separated values but it doesn’t. If I include the t.write(‘\n’) then the tabs issue is resolved but I get double ‘\n’…

Answer 1

I’m sorry… After I hit submit it dawned on me. My last value already has a \n in it which causes the newline.