Whats the best way to write python code into a python file?

Question

I want to write a script (generate_script.py) generating another python script (filegenerated.py)

So far i have created generate_script.py:

import os
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Answer 1

untubu answer is probably the more pythonic answer, but in your code example you're missing new line chars and tabs.

file.write("def print_success():\n")
file.write('\tprint "success"\n\n')

This will give you the spacing and newlines. The link below will give you some tips on the accepted ones.

http://docs.python.org/release/2.5.2/ref/strings.html