Here's how to open a file for writing (note: myfile is a variable
name that I choose, and "newfile" is the name of the file to write to):
$ python
>>> myfile = open("newfile", 'w')
>>> type(myfile)
<type 'file'>
>>> myfile.write("write this to the file \n")
>>> myfile.write("and this.... \n")
>>> myfile.close()
and here are the results of this:
$ ls
newfile
$ cat newfile
write this to the file
and this....
What happens if we leave out the \n on each line??