Python: Write a list of tuples to a file

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How can I write the following list:

[(8, 'rfa'), (8, 'acc-raid'), (7, 'rapidbase'), (7, 'rcts'), (7, 'tve-announce'), (5, 'mysql-im'), (5, 'telnetcpcd'), (5, 'etftp'), (5, 'http-alt')]

to a text file with two columns (8 rfa) and many rows, so that I have something like this:

8 rfa
8 acc-raid
7 rapidbase
7 rcts
7 tve-announce
5 mysql-im
5 telnetcpcd 
7 Answers

simply convert the tuple to string with str()

f=open("filename.txt","w+")
# in between code
f.write(str(tuple)+'/n')
# continue

For flexibility, for example; if some items in your list contain 3 items, others contain 4 items and others contain 2 items you can do this.

mylst = [(8, 'rfa'), (8, 'acc-raid','thrd-item'), (7, 'rapidbase','thrd-item','fourth-item'),(9, 'tryrt')]

# this function converts the integers to strings with a space at the end
def arrtostr(item):
    strr=''
    for b in item:
        strr+=str(b)+'   '
    return strr

# now write to your file
with open('list.txt','w+') as doc:
    for line in mylst:
        doc.write(arrtostr(line)+'\n')
    doc.close()

And the output in list.txt

8   rfa   
8   acc-raid   thrd-item   
7   rapidbase   thrd-item   fourth-item   
9   tryrt  

After adding f-strings in Python you can use this example:

mylst = [(8, 'rfa'), (8, 'acc-raid'), (7, 'rapidbase'), (7, 'rcts'), (7, 'tve-announce'), (5, 'mysql-im')]
f = open('out.txt', mode='w+')
for elem in mylst:
    f.write(f'{elem}\n')
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