Seperate entities in text file

[bigdazza]

Hi all,
I am having problems writing seperate data entiries into a file. The code (listed below) keeps on appending the data into one long string, so I cannot read the data item back into a variable.
e.g if I enter 5 data values (1 [return] 2 [return] 3 [return] 4 [return] 5[return]} instead of writing the values as 1,2,3,4,5 into the file, it writes it as a string 1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n. So when I try to read the first value into a variable, I get 1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n instead of 1. I am trying to get the program to write and read back each number individually.
I have even tried opening and closing the file with each data input, hoping that this would give me individual entries in the file, but this did not work either
I hope this makes sense.

Thanks in advance

#Appending text to file

for i in range(5):
    new_file=open("test.txt",mode="a+",encoding="utf-8")
    er=input("Enter some text:")
    rt=er+"\n"
    new_file.write(rt)
    new_file.close()

#Reading data from test.txt
new_file=open("test.txt","r")


#for line in new_file:
for line in range(5):
    x=new_file.read()
    print(x)
new_file.close()

[snippsat]

A little more modern way,with with open() and f-string.
Can trow away close(),it's done automatically.

with open('test1.txt', 'w')  as f_out:
    for times in range(5):
        er = input("Enter some text: ")
        f_out.write(f'{er}\n')

with open('test1.txt') as f:
    numbers = [int(i.strip()) for i in f]
    print(numbers) # [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

The first part dos the same as your code,so have 1\n2\n..ect
When i read it back strip of \n make integer list in one go(list comprehension).
Many times read(),readline() or readlines() is not needed,as can iterate over file object as i do with f.