I have to write strings with newlines and a specific structure to files in Python. When I do
stringtowrite = "abcd ||
efgh||
iklk"
f = open(save_dir + "/" +count+"_report.txt", "w")
f.write(stringtowrite)
f.close()
I'm getting this error:
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
How can I write the string as it is to a file without deleting the new lines?
Have you tried to modify your string the following way:
stringtowrite = "abcd ||\nefgh||\niklk"
f = open(save_dir + os.path.sep +count+"_report.txt", "w")
f.write(stringtowrite)
f.close()
OR:
stringtowrite = """abcd ||
efgh||
iklk"""
The simplest thing is to use python's triple quotes (note the three single quotes)
stringtowrite = '''abcd ||
efgh||
iklk'''
any string literal with triple quotes will continue on a following line. You can use ''' or """.
By the way, if you have
a = abcd
b = efgh
c = iklk
I would recommend the following:
stringtowrite = "%s||\n%s||\n%s" % (a,b,c)
as a more readable and pythonic way of doing it.
'abcd ||\nefgh||\niklk'
You can add the \ character to the end of each line, which indicates that the line is continued on the next line, you can triple-quote the string instead of single-quoting it, or you can replace the literal newlines in the string with \n.
You can write newlines – \n – into your string.
stringtowrite = "abcd ||\nefgh||\niklk"
