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Python giving me long strings in a text document


In my code I have python opening a text document and printing a HTML document in to it. by doing so it gives me a long sentence with ";" in it

Example of text in the text document

Total:0.01358324;BTC:0.00000000;LTC:0.00000001;BC:0.00000000;NMC:0.00000000;DOGE:63.71131428;NAUT:0.00017886;DRK:0.00000000;VTC:0.00013866;FTC:0.00000000;CURE:0.00025881;PPC:0.00000000;CHARITY:0.00000000;GHS:0.00003646;GHSOCT:0.00000000;GHSAUG:0.00000000;SCRYPT:200.09600305

How would I write or edit the file so every ";" forces a new line. I currently use this line to write a file called file.

file.write(response.read().decode('utf-8'))

Solution

  • replace with a newline char.

     file.write(response.read().decode('utf-8').replace(";","\n"))
    
    In [72]: line = "Total:0.01358324;BTC:0.00000000;LTC:0.00000001;BC:0.00000000;NMC:0.00000000;DOGE:63.71131428;NAUT:0.00017886;DRK:0.00000000;VTC:0.00013866;FTC:0.00000000;CURE:0.00025881;PPC:0.00000000;CHARITY:0.00000000;GHS:0.00003646;GHSOCT:0.00000000;GHSAUG:0.00000000;SCRYPT:200.09600305"
    
    In [73]: print (line.replace(";","\n"))
    Total:0.01358324
    BTC:0.00000000
    LTC:0.00000001
    BC:0.00000000
    NMC:0.00000000
    DOGE:63.71131428
    NAUT:0.00017886
    DRK:0.00000000
    VTC:0.00013866
    FTC:0.00000000
    CURE:0.00025881
    PPC:0.00000000
    CHARITY:0.00000000
    GHS:0.00003646
    GHSOCT:0.00000000
    GHSAUG:0.00000000
    SCRYPT:200.09600305