beautifulsoup - Python: Writing multiple variables to a file -

i'm new python , i've written scraper prints data scrap exact way need it, i'm having trouble writing data file. need exact same way , in same order when prints in idle

import requests import re bs4 import beautifulsoup  year_entry = raw_input("enter year: ")  week_entry = raw_input("enter week number: ")  week_link = requests.get("http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/scoreboard/?week=" + week_entry + "&phase=2&season=" + year_entry)  page_content = beautifulsoup(week_link.content)  a_links = page_content.find_all('tr', {'class': 'game link'})  link in a_links:         r = 'http://www.sports.yahoo.com' + str(link.attrs['data-url'])         r_get = requests.get(r)         soup = beautifulsoup(r_get.content)         stats = soup.find_all("td", {'class':'stat-value'})         teams = soup.find_all("th", {'class':'stat-value'})         scores = soup.find_all('dd', {"class": 'score'})          try:                 game_score = scores[-1]                 game_score = game_score.text                 x = game_score.split(" ")                 away_score = x[1]                 home_score = x[4]                 home_team = teams[1]                 away_team = teams[0]                 away_team_stats = stats[0::2]                 home_team_stats = stats[1::2]                 print away_team.text + ',' + away_score + ',',                 stats in away_team_stats:                         print stats.text + ',',                 print '\n'                 print home_team.text + ',' + home_score +',',                 stats in home_team_stats:                         print stats.text + ',',                 print '\n'          except:                 pass 

i totally confused on how print txt file same way prints in idle. code built run on completed weeks of nfl season. if test code, recommend year = 2014 , week = 12 (or before)

thanks,

jt

to write file need build line string, write line file.

you'd use like:

# open/create file output    open('my_output_file.csv', 'wb') csv_out:     ...     # beautifulsoup code , parsing goes here     ...     # build output strings     link in a_links:          away_line = ",".join([away_team.text, away_score])         stats in away_team_stats:             away_line += [stats.text]         home_line = ",".join(home_team.text, home_score])         stats in home_team_stats:                 home_line += [stats.text]          # write output strings file            csv_out.write(away_line + '\n')         csv_out.write(home_line + '\n') 

this quick , dirty fix. want csv module (docs)