I am adding names and scores into a file and was trying to figure out how to start a newline after writing data to the file. This is my code so far, but when I go on in the file, all of the variables are on the same line:
print "That's the game folks! You finished with a final score of...", points, 'points! Good game, you made the high score list! What is your name?'
name = raw_input()
w = open('Highscores', 'a')
w.write(name)
w.write(str(points))
w.close()
Use \n for new lines on unix or \r\n for windows. Just add to the end of the string.
w.write(str(points) + '\n')
or
print "That's the game folks! You finished with a final score of...", points, 'points! Good game, you made the high score list! What is your name?\n'
This becomes prettier in Py3:
print("That's the game folks! You scored %i points! Your name?" % points)
with open('Highscores', 'a') as w:
print('%s %i' % (input(), points), file=w)
If you only want a single entry per user (i.e. the highest score of a particular user and no duplicates), you could use a dictionary and do something like this:
>>> from ast import literal_eval
>>> def save_score(name, score):
... try:
... d = literal_eval(open('score').read())
... except:
... d = {}
... if name not in d or d[name] < score:
... d[name] = score
... open('score', 'w').write(str(d))
...
>>> save_score('Jack', 5)
>>> save_score('Jill', 10)
>>> open('score').read()
"{'Jill': 10, 'Jack': 5}"
Do the following,
print(name, points, sep=":", file="Highscores") # Mike:23
You don't even have to do str(points). Works for any data type. And adds a newline by default. It is very efficient compared to custom acrobatics using .write().(Beazly)
