I am a newbie at Python & I have a web scraper program that retrieved links and puts them into a .csv file. I need to add a new line after each web link in the output but I do not know how to use the \n properly. Here is my code:
file = open('C:\Python34\census_links.csv', 'a') file.write(str(census_links)) file.write('\n') Hard to answer your question without knowing the format of the variable census_links.
But presuming it is a list that contains multiple links composed of strings, you would want to parse through each link in the list and append a newline character to the end of a given link and then write that link + newline to the output file:
file = open('C:/Python34/census_links.csv', 'a') # Simulating a list of links: census_links = ['example.com', 'sample.org', 'xmpl.net'] for link in census_links: file.write(link + '\n') # append a newline to each link # as you process the links file.close() # you will need to close the file to be able to # ensure all the data is written. 
print(x, file=f) is another way to do f.write(x + '\n').
E. Ducateme has already answered the question, but you could also use the csv module (most of the code is from here):
import csv # This is assuming that “census_links” is a list census_links = ["Example.com", "StackOverflow.com", "Google.com"] file = open('C:\Python34\census_links.csv', 'a') writer = csv.writer(file) for link in census_links: writer.writerow([link]) 