[newbie] question on what to put in () on target.write

[MattSS102]

#I know how to put in line1 variable on line 25 (target.write(line1)), however when I try to put line2 in it I get an error. The error is "function takes exactly 1 argument (2 give).

How do you do 2 or 3 variables in this?

Thanks,

Matt

from sys import argv

script, filename = argv

print "We're going to erase %r." % filename
print "If you don't want that, hit CTRL-C(^C)."
print "If you do want that, hit RETURN."

raw_input("?")

print "Opening the file..."
target = open(filename, 'w')

print "Truncating the file. Goodbye!"
target.truncate()

print "Now I'm going to ask you for three lines."

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."

target.write(line1, line2)	

print "And finally, we close it."
target.close()

[Sagar]

You could try:

target.write(line+line2)

[wavic]

The write() method takes only one argument. So, you can concatenate the two variables as was proposed or write them one after another.

target.write(line1)
target.write(line2)

But entering three inputs is a lot of typing. You can do:

for _ in range(3):
    line = raw_input( 'Line : ')
    target.write(line)

[MattSS102]

You could try:

target.write(line+line2)

The way the code prints now (from yours) is:
"line1line2"

How would I write the code so that it printed stacked on top of each other?

So that it looked like:

"line 1
Line 2
line 3"

I know you can use the escape factor \n but I'm not sure how. The task in my book I'm working through is to use 1 target.write() with format characters, escapes and strings to have it print:

"line1
line2
line3"

[Sagar]

Yes you are correct, new line character is needed to get the output as desired.

target.write(line1 + "\n" + line2 + "\n" + line3)

[Dixon]

Or for output on one line with spacing:
[python]target.write (line1 + " " + line2 + " " + line3)[python]