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file.write(str(list))

更简单的是:

with open("outfile", "w") as outfile:
    outfile.write("\n".join(itemlist))

要确保项目列表中的所有项目都是字符串，请使用生成器表达式:

with open("outfile", "w") as outfile:
    outfile.write("\n".join(str(item) for item in itemlist))

记住，项目列表占用内存，所以要注意内存消耗。

poem = '''\
Programming is fun
When the work is done
if you wanna make your work also fun:
use Python!
'''
f = open('poem.txt', 'w') # open for 'w'riting
f.write(poem) # write text to file
f.close() # close the file

How It Works: First, open a file by using the built-in open function and specifying the name of the file and the mode in which we want to open the file. The mode can be a read mode (’r’), write mode (’w’) or append mode (’a’). We can also specify whether we are reading, writing, or appending in text mode (’t’) or binary mode (’b’). There are actually many more modes available and help(open) will give you more details about them. By default, open() considers the file to be a ’t’ext file and opens it in ’r’ead mode. In our example, we first open the file in write text mode and use the write method of the file object to write to the file and then we finally close the file.

上面的例子来自Swaroop C H编写的《A Byte of Python》一书。 swaroopch.com

因为我很懒....

import json
a = [1,2,3]
with open('test.txt', 'w') as f:
    f.write(json.dumps(a))

#Now read the file back into a Python list object
with open('test.txt', 'r') as f:
    a = json.loads(f.read())

还有另一种方式。使用simplejson序列化为json(在python 2.6中包含为json):

>>> import simplejson
>>> f = open('output.txt', 'w')
>>> simplejson.dump([1,2,3,4], f)
>>> f.close()

如果你检查output.txt:

[1, 2, 3, 4]

这很有用，因为它的语法是python的，它是人类可读的，并且它可以被其他语言的其他程序读取。

在一般情况下

下面是writelines()方法的语法

fileObject.writelines( sequence )

例子

#!/usr/bin/python

# Open a file
fo = open("foo.txt", "rw+")
seq = ["This is 6th line\n", "This is 7th line"]

# Write sequence of lines at the end of the file.
line = fo.writelines( seq )

# Close opend file
fo.close()

参考

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/file_writelines.htm