Mike Haft wrote:
> All the ways of writing data to a file I know keep telling me that lists
> can't be written to the file. I'm trying to convert data from one set of
> files into files of a different format. But the easiest way to get the
> data from the first set of files is in a list(s).
>
> So, is there any way to convert lists to strings? Or a way to write lists
> to a file?
What do you want the data to look like in the file? You can create a string
from your list and write the string to the file. For example if the list
contains strings and you just want to separate the values with spaces use
join():
>>> data = ['22.5', '0.3', '11.9']
>>> ' '.join(data)
'22.5 0.3 11.9'
Or you could separate the values with comma and space:
>>> ', '.join(data)
'22.5, 0.3, 11.9'
I think from your previous post that your actual data is a list of lists, so
you have to iterate the outside list, formatting each line and writing it to
the file, something like this (borrowing from your previous unanswered post):
out_file = open("test.txt","w")
data = readSOMNETM(filename)
for line in data:
line = ' '.join(line)
out_file.write(line)
out_file.write('\n') # need a newline after each line
out_file.close()
Kent
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