print fileinput, and screen ?

[Shagshag13]

hello,

i've tried fileinput to do inplace modification like :

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countDone = 0
lineI = 0
lineBuffer = []
for line in fileinput.input(FILE_TO_PROCESS,inplace=1, backup='.sav'):

 if line.find('</') != 0:
  lineBuffer.append(line)
 else:
  if len(lineBuffer) > 0:
   lineBuffer[len(lineBuffer) - 1] = lineBuffer[len(lineBuffer) - 1][:-1] + line
   countDone += 1
   for l in lineBuffer:
    print l.strip()
   lineBuffer = []

 lineI += 1

if lineBuffer != []:
 for l in lineBuffer:
    print l.strip()

print " Correcting [%s] lines" % countDone # how to be sure this one will never be in FILE_TO_PROCESS ??? but redirect to screen ?
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and as i do some other printing to stdout (print script times, counts, etc.) i'm wondering if that couldn't conflict with "print"
for fileinput ?

is there a correct way to do it (print in fileinput, and distinct print to screen) ?

thanks in advance,

s13.