How to write output data into pdf?

I can't find a way how to write output data (lists or function return) into pdf in python. This is my simple code. I want to write the i of data list line by line in pdf. But the output shows only [1,2,3,4,5,6] . Which pdf module is would be better for me to use?

import fpdf data=[1,2,3,4,5,6] pdf = fpdf.FPDF(format='letter') pdf.add_page() pdf.set_font("Arial", size=12) for i in str(data): pdf.write(5,i) pdf.output("testings.pdf")

840 12 12 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges asked Mar 19, 2018 at 3:35 Swe Zin Phyoe Swe Zin Phyoe 149 1 1 gold badge 2 2 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges Possible duplicate of Creating and writing to a pdf file in Python Commented Mar 19, 2018 at 3:40 This works fine to me pypi.python.org/pypi/trml2pdf Commented Mar 19, 2018 at 3:59 Please see the solution on the following link: stackoverflow.com/questions/45953770/… Commented Mar 19, 2018 at 5:50 nope. i want to write multiple dict files into pdf line by line! Commented Mar 19, 2018 at 8:33

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You are doing everything correct to write output into a PDF. But you are not getting the result you "want" because your Python code is not correct!

for i in str(data): .. do stuff with i here ..

does not do what you think it does. As soon as you convert data to a string, per str(data) , it magically becomes the string

[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

Then the for loop iterates over the contents of that string – its characters – and writes them one by one to the PDF.

That is your first error. Yes, you must supply a string to pdf.write – but only of each separate item you want to write, not the entire input object.

The second is assuming pdf.write outputs a line including a return at the end. It does not:

This method prints text from the current position. When the right margin is reached (or the \n character is met), a line break occurs and text continues from the left margin. Upon method exit, the current position is left just at the end of the text.
(https://pyfpdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/write/index.html)

You can use ln to insert line breaks, or append \n at the end of each string just before writing it.

import fpdf data=[1,2,3,4,5,6] pdf = fpdf.FPDF(format='letter') pdf.add_page() pdf.set_font("Arial", size=12) for i in data: pdf.write(5,str(i)) pdf.ln() pdf.output("testings.pdf")