write multiple files at a time

Question

I have a file with 196 list in it,and I want to create new 196 output files and write each of the list in a new file, so that I will have 196 output files each containing 1

Answer 1

Your current code is loading everything into memory, which is quite unnecessary, then it is making a list in a place that is not appropriate, hence your error. Try this:

fn = open("/home/vidula/Desktop/project/ori_tri/inpt.data","r")
for i, line in enumerate(fn):
    f = open("/home/vidula/Desktop/project/ori_tri/input_%i.data" %i,'w')
    f.write(line)
    f.close()

This will just write each line as it was to each file. Look up the enumerate function I used to do the indexing.

Having done this, you will still need to write parsing logic to turn each line into a series of lines...I'm not going to do that for you here, since your original code didn't really have logic for it either.