Help with mass remove in text file

[Jeremy Moles]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 09:00 -0700, rorley at gmail.com wrote: 
> I'm trying to open a text file, remove all instances of the words
> "f=x;" and "i=x;" where x can be any number 0-14.  Also, I want to
> remove all {   " or ) or ( or '   } each time one of those characters
> occurs respectively.  This is what I've been able to piece together...

Does this do what you're wanting?

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finds = ("{", "}", "(", ")")
lines = file("foo.txt", "r").readlines()

for line in lines:
	for find in finds:
		if find in line:
			line.replace(find, "")

print lines

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> 
> import os, string
> x = ("f=;")
> y = ("i=;)
>     inputFile = open('abcd.txt','r')
>        data = inputFile.read()
>        inputFile.close()
>        search = string.find(data, x)
>        if search >=1:
>           data = data.replace(x)
>           data = data.replace(y)
>           outputFile = open('abcd.txt','w')
>           outputFile.write(data)
>           outputFile.close()
> 
> 
> This doesn't work, even to just remove "f=;".  Any help would be great.
> 
> Thanks,
> Reece
>