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[Dave Harrison]

Curt,

File ops are built natively into python, no module necessary.

A file object is created as :

f = file('foo')
or for pre2.2 python
f = open('foo')

You can then read lines out by calling f.readlines() which will return you a list of the lines of the file.

Writing elsewhere is very similar but using a write flag at the time when you create the file object.

Cheers
Dave

C. Dunlap (webguy at netpath-rc.net):
> I want to be able to randomly pull four lines of text out of a file and 
> write those four lines to another file.
> 
> Are there any tutorials available on the web that will point me in the 
> right direction? Would I use a module to accomplish this task?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Curt
> 
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