write multiple lines in a file in python

Question

I have the following code:

line1 = raw_input(\"line 1: \")
line2 = raw_input(\"line 2: \")
line3 = raw_input(\"line 3: \")
print \"I\'m going to write these          


        

Answer 1

You're confusing the braces. Do it like this:

target.write("%s \n %s \n %s \n" % (line1, line2, line3))

Or even better, use writelines:

target.writelines([line1, line2, line3])

Answer 2

with open('target.txt','w') as out:
    line1 = raw_input("line 1: ")
    line2 = raw_input("line 2: ")
    line3 = raw_input("line 3: ")
    print("I'm going to write these to the file.")
    out.write('{}\n{}\n{}\n'.format(line1,line2,line3))

Answer 3

this also works:

target.write("{}" "\n" "{}" "\n" "{}" "\n".format(line1, line2, line3))

Answer 4

another way which, at least to me, seems more intuitive:

target.write('''line 1
line 2
line 3''')

Answer 5

variable=10
f=open("fileName.txt","w+") # file name and mode
for x in range(0,10):
    f.writelines('your text')
    f.writelines('if you want to add variable data'+str(variable))
    # to add data you only add String data so you want to type cast variable  
    f.writelines("\n")

Answer 6

I notice that this is a study drill from the book "Learn Python The Hard Way". Though you've asked this question 3 years ago, I'm posting this for new users to say that don't ask in stackoverflow directly. At least read the documentation before asking.

And as far as the question is concerned, using writelines is the easiest way.

Use it like this:

target.writelines([line1, line2, line3])

And as alkid said, you messed with the brackets, just follow what he said.