AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'write'

[loren41]

OS is Ubuntu Linux 9.10/Python Version is 2.6.4/Gui Tool is Dr. Python

My program has a large html-coded string called tarr_record. When I try to open an output file and write the record to the file, I receive the following error:

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'write'

[CODE=Python]
open(output_fil e, "a")
output_file.wri te(tarr_record + "\n")
output_file.clo se()
[/CODE]

[bvdet]

Assign the open file object to an identifier. Call method write() on the identifier then close().

fileObj = open(output_file, "a")
fileObj.write(tarr_record + "\n")
fileObj.close()