Writing to text file using geometry tokens of ArcPy

Question

I am trying to write into a text file using geometry tokens but they're not being called upon.

 open(infile, "w")
 cursor = arcpy.CreateFeatureclass(fc, ["OID@", "SHAPE@", "NAME"])
 ID = 0
 for row in cursor:
 f = open("rivers_IWM.txt", "w")
 f.write(str("OID@"))
 f.write(str("SHAPE@X"))
 f.write(str("SHAPE@Y"))

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Answer 1

You can write it in the following format:

import arcpy,os
from arcpy import env
ws = env.workspace = (r"F:\Ahmad\Test\PT") # Change the working directory
fc = "Cities.shp" # Change the shapefile
fld_list = ["OID@","SHAPE@x","SHAPE@y","Name"]
with open(os.path.join(ws,"cities.txt"),"w") as text_file:
 with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(fc,fld_list) as cursor:
 for row in cursor:
 write_text = "{0}, {1}, {2}, {3}".format(row[0],row[1],row[2],row[3])
 text_file.write(write_text + "\n")

Here is the output:

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Answer 2

It looks like every time you pass a row in your cursor you are creating a new text file. You are basically re-writing the text file for each row. You also need to close you text file at the end of (and outside of) your for loop.