On Nov 20, 9:31 am, Joe Strout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 19, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Mohsen Akbari wrote: > > > I'm a newbie in python and I have this problem with the code that > > I'm writing. There is a very long line which I wish to output it to > > a text file.But when I do this, in the output file, the result > > appears in two lines. > > Appears that way where? Using what tool to view it? > > My guess is that there is nothing wrong with the file, but that > whatever you're using to view it is simply displaying it as two lines > even though it is actually one.
Or the "line" contains an embedded newline. The OP may like to insert some debug code just before he writes the line: print line.find('\n'), len(line), repr(line) and tell us how long is "very long". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list