How do you append to a file with newline?

Question

How do you append to the file instead of writing in same line with new line.

Answer 1

Python has many variations off of the main three modes, these three modes are:

'w'   write text
'r'   read text
'a'   append text

So to append to a file it's as easy as:

f = open('filename.txt', 'a') 
f.write('whatever you want to write here (in append mode) here.')

Then there are the modes that just make your code fewer lines:

'r+'  read + write text
'w+'  read + write text
'a+'  append + read text

Finally, there are the modes of reading/writing in binary format:

'rb'  read binary
'wb'  write binary
'ab'  append binary
'rb+' read + write binary
'wb+' read + write binary
'ab+' append + read binary

Answer 2

when we using this line open(filename, "a"), that a indicates the appending the file, that means allow to insert extra data to the existing file.

You can just use this following lines to append the text in your file

def FileSave(filename,content):
    with open(filename, "a") as myfile:
        myfile.write(content)

FileSave("test.txt","test1 \n")
FileSave("test.txt","test2 \n")

Answer 3

Here's my script, which basically counts the number of lines, then appends, then counts them again so you have evidence it worked.

shortPath  = "../file_to_be_appended"
short = open(shortPath, 'r')

## this counts how many line are originally in the file:
long_path = "../file_to_be_appended_to" 
long = open(long_path, 'r')
for i,l in enumerate(long): 
    pass
print "%s has %i lines initially" %(long_path,i)
long.close()

long = open(long_path, 'a') ## now open long file to append
l = True ## will be a line
c = 0 ## count the number of lines you write
while l: 
    try: 
        l = short.next() ## when you run out of lines, this breaks and the except statement is run
        c += 1
        long.write(l)

    except: 
        l = None
        long.close()
        print "Done!, wrote %s lines" %c 

## finally, count how many lines are left. 
long = open(long_path, 'r')
for i,l in enumerate(long): 
    pass
print "%s has %i lines after appending new lines" %(long_path, i)
long.close()

Answer 4

I always do this,

f = open('filename.txt', 'a')
f.write("stuff")
f.close()

It's simple, but very useful.

Answer 5

with open("test.txt", "a") as myfile:
    myfile.write("appended text")

Answer 6

if you want to append to a file

with open("test.txt", "a") as myfile:
    myfile.write("append me")

We declared the variable myfile to open a file named test.txt. Open takes 2 arguments, the file that we want to open and a string that represents the kinds of permission or operation we want to do on the file

here is file mode options

Mode    Description

'r' This is the default mode. It Opens file for reading.
'w' This Mode Opens file for writing. 
If file does not exist, it creates a new file.
If file exists it truncates the file.
'x' Creates a new file. If file already exists, the operation fails.
'a' Open file in append mode. 
If file does not exist, it creates a new file.
't' This is the default mode. It opens in text mode.
'b' This opens in binary mode.
'+' This will open a file for reading and writing (updating)