Writing to a text file

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Writing to a text file


print "Creating a text file with the write() method."
text_file = open("write_it.txt", "w")
text_file.write("Line 1n")
text_file.write("line 2n")
text_file.write("line 3n")
text_file.close()

print "nReading the newly created file."
text_file = open("write_it.txt", "r")
print text_file.read()
text_file.close()

print "nCreating a text file with the writelines() method."
text_file = open("write_it.txt", "w")
lines = ["Line 1n",
         "line 2n",
         "line 3n"]
text_file.writelines(lines)
text_file.close()

print "nReading the newly created file."
text_file = open("write_it.txt", "r")
print text_file.read()
text_file.close()

raw_input("nnPress the enter key to exit.")