newbe question about removing items from one file to another file

[Eric_Dexter at msn.com]

PetDragon wrote:
> Sounds like you need to use html parser, check it out in the
> documentation....
>
>
>
> <Eric_Dexter at msn.com> wrote in message
> news:1156714534.318183.326220 at i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> > def simplecsdtoorc(filename):
> >    file = open(filename,"r")
> >    alllines = file.read_until("</CsInstruments>")
> >    pattern1 = re.compile("</")
> >    orcfilename = filename[-3:] + "orc"
> >    for line in alllines:
> >        if not pattern1
> >             print >>orcfilename, line
> >
> > I am pretty sure my code isn't close to what I want.  I need to be able
> > to skip html like commands from <defined> to <undefined> and to key on
> > another word in adition to </CsInstruments> to end the routine
> >
> > I was also looking at se 2.2 beta but didn't see any easy way to use it
> > for this or for that matter search and replace where I could just add
> > it as a menu item and not worry about it.
> >
> > thanks for any help in advance
> >

I will look into that a little bit since that is so html like...  maybe
some of the examples can lead me in the right direction on alot of it..

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