Write to a File
Write to a File is a reusable Python snippet. Writes content to a file using the `with` statement for automatic resource management. The full implementation: # Write to file (overwrites) with open("output.txt", "w") as f: f.write("Hello, World!\n") f.write("Second line\n") # Append to file with open("output.txt", "a") as f: f.write("Appended line\n") # Write multiple lines lines = ["line1", "line2", "line3"] with open("output.txt", "w") as f: f.writelines(line + "\n" for line in lines) It belongs to the Built-in Functions area of the standard library. This snippet uses only the Python standard library with no third-party dependencies, so it runs on any modern Python 3 interpreter. Browse more patterns in the snippet library, or paste the code straight into the playground to experiment with it.