On Sep 8, 11:39 am, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > Maggie wrote: > > My code is supposed to enumerate each line of file (1, 2, 3...) and > > write the new version into the output file -- > > > #!/usr/bin/python > > > import os.path > > import csv > > import sys > > > #name of output file > > filename = "OUTPUT.txt" > > > #open the file > > test = open ("test.txt", "r") > > > #read in all the data into a list > > readData = test.readlines() > > > count = 0 > > > FILE = open(filename, "w") > > > for item in readData: > > Try adding: > print repr(item) > > here to see what the lines actually look like. It might be a problem > with line endings. > > > count = count + 1 > > tmp_string = str(count) + ' ' + item > > print >> FILE, tmp_string > > > else: > > print 'The loop is finito' > > > --- > > > here is the sample file -- > > > 23 > > 123 > > 231 > > 1231 > > > --- > > > the output file i get looks like this: > > > 1 23 > > 123 > > 231 > > 1231 > > > -- > > > my question is why the enumeration starts and stops at first line and > > doesnt go through the entire file -- > > > (file is saved as .txt, so hypothetically no .rtf formatting that > > would screw up the output should be present) > > > thanks for your help > >
great tip, thanks so much -- now this is the output i get in the terminal... '23\r123\r231\r1231' why is it so? since the file is in .txt format - there should be no formatting involved?... how would i fix this? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list