Outputting on a file

Question

This is my code

sentext = open("urSentence.txt", "w")
UserSen = input("Enter your sentence of your choice, ")
print (UserSen)
sentext.close()
postext = open("ThePos.txt", "w")
listSplit = UserSen.split()
X = {} #this will make the words in a sentence assigned to a number
position=[]
for i,j in enumerate(listSplit): #"i" will count how many words there are in the sentence
 if j in X:
 position.append(X[j])
 else:
 X[j]=i
 position.append(i)
print (position)
postext.close()

It makes the files but it doesn't save anything in them. What am I doing wrong?

• jonrsharpe: Doesn't save what on to it? You never write anything to or read anything from the files.
• 0xtvarun: You are just opening and closing the file
• Szymon: f.write('This is a test\n') use this to save text inside file

Answer 1

You never wrote to any file in any way. You can do that in a few ways. Since you're already using what looks like Python 3's print function, try the file parameter:

print(UserSen, file=sentext)
...
print(position, file=postext)

• Gábor Erdős: Never knew print had an option to write to file. Good to know! +1

Answer 2

The print function won't write to the file. You need to explicitly write to it.

sentext = open("urSentence.txt", "w")
UserSen = input("Enter your sentence of your choice, ")
sentext.write(UserSen)
sentext.close()

and similarly:

postext = open("ThePos.txt", "w")
...
postext.write(str(position))
postext.close()

• TigerhawkT3: position is a list. You can't directly write that to a file.