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Avoiding Excess Characters When Writing Files in Python

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 3, 2024

When writing data to files in Python, be aware of extra characters like newlines and padding. Use file.write() instead of print() and clean string formatting for clean file output.

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