How do I turn a list into a string so I can save it in a txt file?

Question

I tried some solutions from the internet but every time I get an error:

TypeError: write() argument must be str, not function

Here is my code:

import requests
import json
from pprint import pprint
# from datetime import datetime
 
def createParamsByUser(amount, typeOfAnimal):
    params = { "amount" : amount, "animal_type" : typeOfAnimal}
 
    return params
 
def listToStr(s):
    str1 = ""
    return (str1.join(s))
 
typeOfAnimal = input("Would you read facts about cat or dog?\n")
amount = str(input("How many facts would you generate?\n"))
createdParams = createParamsByUser(amount, typeOfAnimal)
r = requests.get("https://cat-fact.herokuapp.com/facts/random", createdParams)
s = []
try:
    content = r.json()
except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError:
    print("Wrong format")
else:
    for animal in content:
        pprint(animal["text"])
        s.append(animal["text"])
 
printInToFile = input("Do you want print text above in to a file (type Y/N)")
 
if (printInToFile == "y" or "Y"):
    with open("Facts about",  "a+", encoding="UTF-8") as file:
        file.write(listToStr)
elif (printInToFile == "n" or "N"):
    print("Thanks for using my program")

By the way, how to write code to write datetime.today in front of the file name using datetime.today? I tried this:

with open(datetime.today + "Fact about" + typeOfAnimal , "a+", encoding="UTF-8") as file:

Answer 1

The problem is in this part:

if (printInToFile == "y" or "Y"):
    with open("Facts about",  "a+", encoding="UTF-8") as file:
        file.write(listToStr)
elif (printInToFile == "n" or "N"):
    print("Thanks for using my program")

In the write() function, you are giving listTostr as the argument, which is a function object, replace that with listToStr(<whatever parameters>) .

if (printInToFile == "y" or "Y"):
    with open("Facts about",  "a+", encoding="UTF-8") as file:
        file.write(listToStr(parameters))
elif (printInToFile == "n" or "N"):
    print("Thanks for using my program")