On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 09:40:58 -0800, ryguy7272 wrote: > > It doesn't seem like the '\n' is doing anything useful. All the text is > jumbled together. When I open the file in Excel, or Notepad++, it is > easy to read. However, when I open it in as a regular text file, > everything is jumbled together. Is there an easy way to fix this?
You're suffering cause-effect inversion. Windows default Notepad is a fundamentally crippled text editor that only knows how to handle Windows/ DOS style text files, where the line endings is '\n\r'. Notepad++, along with many other excellent editors available for Windows, is smart enough to figure out from the file whether it's Windows style or UNIX style, where line endings are just a bare '\n'. So the problem wasn't with what you were writing, it's with how you define "open it as a regular text file". On my Windows machine I long ago switched the default editor to Notepad++ for everything and was far happier for it. -- Rob Gaddi, Highland Technology -- www.highlandtechnology.com Email address domain is currently out of order. See above to fix. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list