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Cyanide
Cyanide

Reputation: 23

Python: Making a multiple line user input to text file

How the heck can I do this... I'm New to Python and I'm trying to create a recipe catalog program to store all my recipes...

The 'adding a recipe' part of my code:

def add_recipe():
    recipe_name = input ("Recipe name: ");
    print('Please add the directions AND ingredients')
    with open (recipe_name + ".txt", "x") as f:
        f.write(input ());

I just need the Multi-line user input...

EDIT: I need it to go into a .txt file

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1028

Answers (3)

blhsing
blhsing

Reputation: 107104

You can use iter(input, '') to accept input until a blank line:

recipe_name = input ("Recipe name: ");
print('Please add the directions AND ingredients')
with open (recipe_name + ".txt", "x") as f:
    for line in iter(input, ''):
        f.write(line + '\n');

Upvotes: 2

U13-Forward
U13-Forward

Reputation: 71610

OR using a while loop, and keep appending to list:

l=[]
a=input()
while a:
   l.append(a)
   a=input()
print(l)

Example output:

First line
Second line

['First line', 'Second line']

Or for full code:

reciept_name=input('Reciept: ')
a=input('Your input: ')
with open(reciept_name+'.txt','w') as f:
   while a:
      f.write(a+'\n')
      a=input('Your input: ')

Example Output:

Reciept: Bob
Your input: 123
Your input: 456
Your input: abc
Your input:

Upvotes: 0

randomir
randomir

Reputation: 18697

Try with readlines() on sys.stdin:

>>> import sys
>>> sys.stdin.readlines()
first line 
second line
third line
<Ctrl+D>
['first line\n', 'second line\n', 'third line\n']

Upvotes: 1

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