--- Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 06 January 2008 18:21 Francesco Pietra wrote:
>
> > Please, how to adapt the following script (to delete blank lines) to
> > delete lines containing a specific word, or words?
> >
> > f=open("output.pdb", "r")
> > for line in f:
> > line=line.rstrip()
> > if line:
> > print line
> > f.close()
>
> >>> import re
> >>> s = ["hello", "world", "", "\t ", " ", "#asdfasdf"]
> >>> pattern = re.compile("^\s*$")
> >>> #only "hello" should be printed as "world" is a word we want to skip
> >>> for line in s:
> ... if "world" in line:
> ... continue
> ... if pattern.match(line):
> ... continue
> ... if line.startswith("#"):
> ... continue
> ... print line
> ...
> hello
> >>>
>
> you have to adapt it to be able to match more than a single word
>
> > If python in Linux accepts lines beginning with # as comment lines, please
> > also a script to comment lines containing a specific word, or words, and
> > back, to remove #.
>
> yes lines starting with a "#" are comments in python but that shouldn't be
> of concern for your input data. I don't quite get what you want here...
Leaving the lines commented out would permit to resume them or at least remeber
what was suppressed. During trial and error set up of a calculation one never
knows exactly the outcome
thanks
francesco
>
> hth
> martin
>
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