Write text to file line by line [duplicate]

Question

I'm trying to write some text to a file, and here's what i tried :

text = "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting " \
                  "industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s," \
                  " when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book."
target = open("file", 'wb')
target.writelines(text)

And I get an empty file. How can I do this?

Answer 1

The code you've provided produces a file named file with the desired lines. Perhaps you meant to save it as "file.txt". Also, the 'b' in the 'wb' flag tells the code to write the file in binary mode (more information here). Try just using 'w' if you want the file to be readable.

Finally it is best practice to use the with statement when accessing files

text ="Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting " \
              "industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s," \
              " when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book."
with open("file.txt", 'w') as f:
    f.write(text)