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minidave2014
minidave2014

Reputation: 13

Writing results into a .txt file

I created a code to take two .txt files, compare them and export the results to another .txt file. Below is my code (sorry about the mess).

Any ideas? Or am I just an imbecile?

Using python 3.5.2:

# Barcodes Search (V3actual)

# Import the text files, putting them into arrays/lists

with open('Barcodes1000', 'r') as f:
    barcodes = {line.strip() for line in f}

with open('EANstaging1000', 'r') as f:
    EAN_staging = {line.strip() for line in f}

##diff = barcodes ^ EAN_staging 
##print (diff)



in_barcodes_but_not_in_EAN_staging = barcodes.difference(EAN_staging)

print (in_barcodes_but_not_in_EAN_staging)

# Exporting in_barcodes_but_not_in_EAN_staging to a .txt file

with open("BarcodesSearch29_06_16", "wt") as BarcodesSearch29_06_16:    # Create .txt file
    BarcodesSearch29_06_16.write(in_barcodes_but_not_in_EAN_staging)    # Write results to the .txt file

Upvotes: 1

Views: 281

Answers (2)

Blue_vision
Blue_vision

Reputation: 154

From the comments to your question, it sounds like your issue is that you want to save your list of strings as a file. File.write expects a single string as input, while File.writelines expects a list of strings, which is what your data appears to be.

with open("BarcodesSearch29_06_16", "wt") as BarcodesSearch29_06_16:
    BarcodesSearch29_06_16.writelines(in_barcodes_but_not_in_EAN_staging)

That will iterate through your list in_barcodes_but_not_in_EAN_staging, and write each element as a separate line in the file BarcodesSearch29_06_16.

Upvotes: 2

jackiezhu
jackiezhu

Reputation: 422

Try BarcodesSearch29_06_16.write(str(in_barcodes_but_not_in_EAN_staging)). Also, you'll want to close the file after you're done writing to it with BarcodesSearch29_06_16.close().

Upvotes: 1

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