[python-advocacy] Nothing prints or writes to the output.txt

[Aahz]

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On Thu, Mar 21, 2013, Hedieh Ebrahimi wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to write the below code to be able to read from a text file and
> fine lines that start with
> TRAN  and then write this line and the next 2 following lines to another
> file called Output.txt.
> 
> my code is as below:
> 
> 
> with open('p.txt') as f1:
>   with open('Output.txt', 'a') as f2:
>     for line in f1:
>       if line.startswith('TRAN'):
>     print("true")
>         f2.write(line)
>         f2.write(f1.next())
>         f2.write(f1.next())
> 
> but when i type python he.py in folder where the p.txt and Output.txt are
> located, nothing happens and no data is written to the output file.
> 
> Could somebody please tell me where is my error?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Heidi

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