Write to a file from a list with integer Python

Question

Im trying to write a text file from a list, it works perfectly with a list of strings, each element gets on a new line. But when I try to write from a list with integers it does

Answer 1

#!/usr/bin/python

years = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]

with open('year.txt', 'w') as file:
    for year in years:
        file.write("%i\n" % year)

gives

$ cat year.txt 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Is that what you want?

Answer 2

Since you used the variable name year I think you're trying to convert a string integer of year, so here's how you'd do that. I am also suspect this is the issue because of the odd output you're getting. I also added code on how to one-line convert years to a string version of itself.

Writing an integer to a file

year = 1998
with open('year.txt', 'w') as file:
    file.write('\n'.join([str(year)]))

Writing a list of integers to a file

years = [1998,1996]
with open('year2.txt', 'w') as file:
    file.write('\n'.join(str(year) for year in years))

(Per request of the original poster):

years = [1998,1996]
with open('year2.txt', 'w') as file:
    file.write('\n'.join(years))

Answer 3

You need to convert the integers to strings.

with open('year_string.txt', 'w') as file:
file.write('\n'.join(year_string))

Needs to be:

with open('year_string.txt', 'w') as file:
file.write(str('\n'.join(year_string)))