Answers for "take line by line and update/wtite a file in python"

python write to file

file = open(“testfile.txt”,”w”) 
 
file.write(“Hello World”) 
file.write(“This is our new text file”) 
file.write(“and this is another line.”) 
file.write(“Why? Because we can.”) 
 
file.close() 

open text file in python

f=open("Diabetes.txt",'r')
f.read()

read files and write into another files python

import sys
import glob
import os.path

list_of_files = glob.glob('/Users/Emily/Topics/*.txt') #500 files

for file_name in list_of_files:
    print(file_name)

    # This needs to be done *inside the loop*
    f= open(file_name, 'r')
    lst = []
    for line in f:
       line.strip()
       line = line.replace("\n" ,'')
       line = line.replace("//" , '')
       lst.append(line)
    f.close()

    f=open(os.path.join('/Users/Emily/UpdatedTopics',
    os.path.basename(file_name)) , 'w')

    for line in lst:
       f.write(line)
    f.close()