Uwe: I think that is what I am looking for. Converting my list to a string doesn't seem to treat the contents of the string the way I would expect. There are 16 fields in each records and besides I can save a step with your approach below. I will try it.
Thanks, Jeff Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] SanDC, Inc. 623-582-0323 Fax 623-869-0675 Uwe Grauer wrote: > Jeff Johnson wrote: >> Uwe: That is what I was expecting, but I do not get that. >> >> I am writing the string to a file. When I view the file I get astr, not >> the two records separated by the return. >> >> f = open('text.txt', 'w') >> f.write(astr) >> >> yields one string in the file and not two records. >> >> Jeff >> > > Maybe you want something like: > > alist = ['field1', 'field2', 'field3', 'field4'] > f = open('text.txt', 'w') > alen = len(alist) > i = 0 > while(i+2 <= alen): > f.write("%s %s\n" % (alist[i], alist[i+1])) > i = i+2 > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: Dabo-users@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/dabo-users/[EMAIL PROTECTED]