Writing prettytable in output file in python

Question

I am parsing through a textfile and extracting the information I need into a prettytable. However, I am unable to write the table out as one table it outputs as a single table for each item.

My code for outputting the table:

f = open("out2.txt", "w")
for item in table:
    f.write("%s\n" % item)

f.write("There are %(count)d errors found" %{"count": count})

And my output looks like:

How can i write out the table so that it is one consecutive table?

ryachza · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-04T12:37:31.173

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Does f.write(table.get_string()) work for you? Instead of iterating through the table and writing each item, just write the table itself?

So something like this, replacing the loop:

f = open('out2.txt','wb')
f.write(table.get_string())
f.write('There are %(count)d errors found' % {'count': count})

edited Oct 04 '17 at 12:37

answered Oct 03 '17 at 19:23

ryachza

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@KayCarosfeild It looks like you kept the `write` inside the loop. I updated the answer for clarity thinking you want to write the entire table once. – ryachza Oct 04 '17 at 12:38
That works perfectly sorry that was a simple mistake on my behave. – Kay Carosfeild Oct 04 '17 at 17:52

Writing prettytable in output file in python

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