Correct way to write line to file?

Posted By: Anonymous

I’m used to doing print >>f, "hi there"

However, it seems that print >> is getting deprecated. What is the recommended way to do the line above?

Update:
Regarding all those answers with "n"…is this universal or Unix-specific? IE, should I be doing "rn" on Windows?

Solution

This should be as simple as:

with open('somefile.txt', 'a') as the_file:
    the_file.write('Hellon')

From The Documentation:

Do not use os.linesep as a line terminator when writing files opened in text mode (the default); use a single ‘n’ instead, on all platforms.

Some useful reading:

• The with statement
• open()
  • ‘a’ is for append, or use
  • ‘w’ to write with truncation
• os (particularly os.linesep)

Answered By: Anonymous

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