"Que Prime" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> Here is what I have so far but can't seem to get the loop and
> write correct.
I suspect you have used another language before and
Python's for loop is foxing you.
> print "Creating txt file"
> tfile = open("25.txt", "w")
>
> for i in range(25):
> x = int(1)
You don;t need to convert to an int, i is already an int.
But worse, you are here converting the number 1 to
an int every time through the loop. I don't think thats
what you want! range(25) will produce a list of numbers
from 0 to 24. The for loop will set i to each number in
turn.
> tfile.writelines("x\n")
And writelines expects a list of strings but you are
giving it one string. You only need write() here. And
of course you don't need x so you can just write
the string version of i: str(i) plus a new line (\n)
> x += 1
And you don't need this at all because the loop
will automatically get the next number.
> tfile.close()
Try those changes, it should simplify things significantly.
You might find a quick read through my loops and file
handling topics useful too.
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
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