I think you will have to iterate through the input file line by line.
Something like
for line in a:
  outp.write(line)

If you want to write the contents of your x in range iteration:
for x in range(1, 11):
    s = repr(x).rjust(2)+', '+ repr(x*x).rjust(3)+','
    outp.write(s)

Oeyvind

2007/11/18, Super Pija <superpija2@yahoo.com>:
> hello,
>       i didn't get any useful answer to the next question in any
> programming/python forum. thanks a lot for any help.
> Here's the question:
> The next code creates a new file, and i can not find the way to write
> *in that new file* the list below (*). How to do it?
>
> def Newtext (n):
>    outp =3D open("newfile.txt","w")
>    a =3D "new file"
>    outp.write(a)
>    outp.close()
>
> (*)
> >>> for x in range(1, 11):
> ...     print repr(x).rjust(2), repr(x*x).rjust(3),
> ...     # Note trailing comma on previous line
> ...     print repr(x*x*x).rjust(4)
> ...
>  1   1    1
>  2   4    8
>  3   9   27
>  4  16   64
>  5  25  125
>  6  36  216
>  7  49  343
>  8  64  512
>  9  81  729
> 10 100 1000
>
>
>
>
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