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Chris Hall
Chris Hall

Reputation: 37

Writing multiple lists to a file

I have 2 lists and an output file sent to a function I am having an issue with how to do the .write statement.

I have tried using an index, but get list error.

nameList = ['james','billy','kathy']
incomeList = [40000,50000,60000]

I need to search the lists and write the name and income to a file.

  for income in incomeList:
      if income > 40000:
          output.write(str("%10d    %12.2f \n")  # (this is what I can't figure out)))

Upvotes: 0

Views: 111

Answers (3)

Abhishek Rai
Abhishek Rai

Reputation: 2227

You can do it like this.

nameList = ['james','billy','kathy']
incomeList = [40000,50000,60000]
for k, v in zip(nameList, incomeList):
    if v > 40000:
        print(k,v )

Output :-

 billy 50000
 kathy 60000

Upvotes: 1

Siddhant Sukhatankar
Siddhant Sukhatankar

Reputation: 55

In the case of 2 lists, I would suggest using a dict.

nameIncomeList = {'james':40000,'billy':50000,'kathy':60000}

For multiple case scenario,

f=open('f1.txt','w')
for i in range(len(nameList)):
    if incomeList[i]>40000:
        f.write(nameList[i]+' '+incomeList[i]+'\n')

f.close()

Upvotes: 0

Shadowcoder
Shadowcoder

Reputation: 972

Maybe this is what you want:

for i,income in enumerate(incomeList):
      if income > 40000:
          output.write(str(nameList[i]) )

Upvotes: 1

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