<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i meddelandet news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > hi > say i have a text file > > line1 > line2 > line3 > line4 > line5 > line6 > abc > line8 <---to be delete > line9 <---to be delete > line10 <---to be delete > line11 <---to be delete > line12 <---to be delete > line13 <---to be delete > xyz > line15 > line16 > line17 > line18 > > I wish to delete lines that are in between 'abc' and 'xyz' and print > the rest of the lines. Which is the best way to do it? Should i get > everything into a list, get the index of abc and xyz, then pop the > elements out? or any other better methods?
what's wrong with a simple emit = True for line in open("q.txt"): if line == "xyz\n": emit = True if emit: print line, if line == "abc\n": emit = False loop ? (this is also easy to tweak for cases where you don't want to include the patterns in the output). to print to a file instead of stdout, just replace the print line with a f.write call. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list