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Noah R
Noah R

Reputation: 5477

Getting Poorly Formatted Output (Python)

When I use the below code I get a very poorly formatted output. One of the main output problems are the /n. The /n don't show up in the real text file, but viewing it from the Python script it's all "unformatted".

The code:

def start():
    command = raw_input('''
1) Add
2) Look Up
3) See All
4) Delete Entry
''')
    if command=="1":
        add()
    if command=="2":
        look_up()


def add():
    name = raw_input("What is your name?")
    age = str(raw_input("How old are you?"))
    salary = raw_input("Enter Salary:")
    state = raw_input("State:")

    fileObj = open("employees.txt","a")
    fileObj.write("Name:"+name+"\n")
    fileObj.write('--------------------------\n')
    fileObj.write("Age:"+age+"\n")
    fileObj.write("Salary:"+salary+"\n")
    fileObj.write("State:"+state+"\n")
    fileObj.write("--------------------------\n")
    fileObj.write("\n\n")
    fileObj.close()
    print "The following text has been saved:"
    print "Name:"+name
    print "Age:"+age
    print "Salary:"+salary
    print "State:"+state
    print "Note: This text was assigned to one line."
    start()
def look_up():
    fileObj = open("employees.txt")
    line = fileObj.readlines()
    print line
    start()
start()

The outcome of reading and printing is:

['\n', 'Name:Noah\n', '--------------------------\n', 'Age:16\n', 'Salary:20000\n', 'State:NC\n', '--------------------------\n', '\n', '\n', 'Name:Daniel Rainey\n', '--------------------------\n', 'Age:18\n', 'Salary:200000\n', 'State:NC\n', '--------------------------\n', '\n', '\n', 'Name:fdadas\n', '--------------------------\n', 'Age:343\n', 'Salary:344433\n', 'State:NC\n', '--------------------------\n', '\n', '\n']

Upvotes: 0

Views: 284

Answers (2)

Sven Marnach
Sven Marnach

Reputation: 601411

Try .read() instead of .readlines():

def look_up():
    fileObj = open("employees.txt")
    contents = fileObj.read()
    print contents
    start()

readlines() reads a the lines of the file as a list, read() as a single string.

Upvotes: 1

user225312
user225312

Reputation: 131577

print line

You are printing a list and that is why the elements get printed.

Try iterating over it and then printing:

for ele in line:
    print ele

Upvotes: 3

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