how do I write to a file and not removing the content of the text file

Question

how do I write to a file and not removing the file/the content of the file

values = '113'
with open("file.txt", 'w') as output:
    for row in values:
        output.write(str(row) + '\n')

how do I fix it?

and I planing to use it as a score board of my snake game I made in pygame

basically you want to append to a file. This behaviour can be achieved by using the mode `a` insteaf of `w`. This beeing said: This question has already been answered e.g. here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4706499/how-do-you-append-to-a-file-in-python . — newBee, Feb 13 '20 at 16:31
Does this answer your question? [How do you append to a file in Python?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4706499/how-do-you-append-to-a-file-in-python) — newBee, Feb 13 '20 at 16:31

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 13 '20 at 16:05

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Using the 'append' attribute ('a') in the open function:

values = '113'
with open("file.txt", 'a') as output:
    for row in values:
        output.write(str(row) + '\n')

answered Feb 13 '20 at 16:05

Luis Munoz

yes I worked thanks – zaze Feb 13 '20 at 16:06
one question more I can't have a int to write – zaze Feb 13 '20 at 16:19
You are writing a text file, so you need to write str values, not int or float. Convert your int to str using `str(int_val)`. – Luis Munoz Feb 13 '20 at 16:28
@zaze please mark it as an answer. otherwise people will continue to comment – Aven Desta Feb 13 '20 at 16:43

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