Python - List comprehension within File I/O code

io, list, python

Solution

One way of doing this is `file.writelines()`:

with open('file.txt', 'w') as textfile:
    textfile.writelines(str(i) + "\n" for i in range(1, 6))

Problem

I want to replicate the functionality of the following code using a list comprehension: ``` with open('file.txt', 'w') as textfile: for i in range(1, 6): textfile.write(str(i) + '\n') ``` I tried the following: ``` with open('file.txt', 'w') as textfile: textfile.write(str([i for i in range(1, 6)]) + '\n') ``` but it (understandably) prints `[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]`, instead of one number on a single line. I don't have an answer to 'Why would you want to do that?'; I just want to see if it's possible. Thanks! EDIT: Thank you all for the replies; for some reason I was under the impression that list comprehensions are always encapsulated in `[]`.

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