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Re: How can I export data from a website and write the contents to a text file?

From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: How can I export data from a website and write the contents to a text file?
Date 2015-11-19 03:57 +1100
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 3:37 AM, ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> wrote:
>       text_file = open("C:/Users/rshuell001/Desktop/excel/Text1.txt", "wb")
>         z = str(link)
>         text_file.write(z + "\n")
>         text_file.write("\n")
>         text_file.close()

You're opening the file every time you go through the loop,
overwriting each time. Instead, open the file once, then start the
loop, and then close it at the end. You can use a 'with' statement to
do the closing for you, or you can do it the way you are here.

ChrisA

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How can I export data from a website and write the contents to a text file? ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 08:37 -0800
  Re: How can I export data from a website and write the contents to a text file? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-19 03:57 +1100
    Re: How can I export data from a website and write the contents to a text file? ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 09:03 -0800
      Re: How can I export data from a website and write the contents to a text file? ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 09:15 -0800
  Re: How can I export data from a website and write the contents to a text file? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 17:19 +0000
    Re: How can I export data from a website and write the contents to a text file? ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 09:40 -0800
      Re: How can I export data from a website and write the contents to a text file? ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 09:43 -0800
        Re: How can I export data from a website and write the contents to a text file? Patrick Hess <patrickhess@gmx.net> - 2015-11-19 20:17 +0100
        Re: How can I export data from a website and write the contents to a text file? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 10:44 -0700
      Re: How can I export data from a website and write the contents to a text file? Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@technologyhighland.invalid> - 2015-11-18 18:05 +0000
  Re: How can I export data from a website and write the contents to a text file? Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2015-11-18 16:38 -0500

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