write and writelines???

[sagars]

hi

what should be the difference in output of write and writelines command for writting data in a file???

thnks

[bogdan.galiceanu]

I really don't think there's difference in output, just that using write() you can write a string, using writelines() you can write a list of strings.

For example:

f=file("C:\\a.txt", "w")
f.write("some text")
f.close()

#This will write the string "some text" in the file
#Trying to write a sequence of strings like this will result in an error

strings=["word1","some other word","bla"]

f=file("C:\\a.txt", "w")
f.write(strings)
f.close()