May 28, 2011 · How do I write a line to a file in modern Python? I heard that this is deprecated:

The interesting part is that writelines() does not add newline characters on its own, so the method name can actually be quite confusing. It actually behaves like an imaginary method called …

In Python, a method is a function that is available for a given object because of the object's type. For example, if you create my_list = [1, 2, 3], the append method can be applied to my_list because it's a …

Mar 2, 2010 · 6 Read about using docstrings in your Python code. As per the Python docstring conventions: The docstring for a function or method should summarize its behavior and document its …

Oct 21, 2016 · TypeError: argument 1 must have a "write" method Asked 9 years, 1 month ago Modified 6 years, 6 months ago Viewed 43k times

In Python's built-in open function, what is the difference between the modes w, a, w+, a+, and r+? The documentation implies that these all allow writing to the file, and says that they open the files for …

Also note that when opening a file in text mode ("r", "w"), Python already handles the platform dependent linebreaks, as you can read here. This means you can just use "\n".join(lines) and it's …

May 27, 2010 · I want to append a newline to my string every time I call file.write(). What's the easiest way to do this in Python?

I have to write many functions and was wondering how I can incorporate a help or description text such that it appears in the object inspector of Spyder when I call the function. In MATLAB, this worked by …

Jun 3, 2010 · The file pointer is at the end of the file if the file exists. The file opens in the append mode. If the file does not exist, it creates a new file for reading and writing. - Python file modes seek () …