I am trying to make the program write these in a new file. It is easy to do each line by itself, but combined is making problems.
line1 = raw_input("line 1: ")
line2 = raw_input("line 2: ")
line3 = raw_input("line 3: ")
print "I'm going to write these to the file."
#this here results a syntax error..
target.write (\%r, \%r, \%r) % (line1, line2, line3)
#what do?
With python 3 you can use f strings
target.write (f"{line1} {line2} {line3}")
You can find much more about f-strings here on offical docs https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/
Try:
targe.write('{} {} {}'.format(line1,line2,line3))
or old format way:
target.write('%r %r %r' % (line1,line2,line3))
Using your current method of writing the lines, you need to have the "%r"s in a string, and the "% (line1, line2, line3)" needs to be in the "target.write()" function call
target.write("%r %r %r" % (line1, line2, line3)
But you cold also try using the writelines method
with open("test.txt", "w+") as file:
file.writelines([line1, line2, line3])
You can also wrap your inputs into a loop to get an arbitrary amount of lines from the user
lines = []
lineCount = 5
for l in range(lineCount):
lines.append(input("Line %d: " % l) + "\n")
with open("test.txt", "w+") as file:
file.writelines(lines)
In Python you can concatenate strings using + operator, so try:
target.write(line1+line2+line3)
EDIT: Version with newlines:
target.write(line1+"\n"+line2+"\n"+line3)
format, string concatenation, ...).