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Sunit asks:

> I'm wondering if someone knew of a way of writing a line of more
> than 80 characters to a file in way that it won't split it into two
> lines.

That's an artifact of the way you're viewing it. None of the ways of
writing characters to a file do anything special at 80 characters.

>>> open('test.txt','w').write('a'*1024)
>>> txt = open('test.txt', 'r').read()
>>> len(txt)
1024
>>> txt == 'a'*1024
1

See? Nothing but 'a's.

- Gordon

In article <e6iPAsIg#GA.226@upnetnews03>, SunitJoshi
<SunitJoshi@email.msn.com> wrote:

> I'm wondering if someone knew of a way of writing a line of more than 80
> characters to a file in way that it won't split it into two lines.

Well, you could type the line in BBEdit Lite, then use the "Save"
command...

I assume you don't mean writing a line to a file in Python, because it
doesn't split it into two lines. Maybe you think it does because of
the way you're viewing it?

For a more detailed answer, try posting a more detailed question.

Cheers,
-- Joe

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