newbe question about removing items from one file to another file

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Sunday 27/8/2006 18:35, Eric_Dexter at msn.com wrote:

(This code don't even compile...!)

>def simplecsdtoorc(filename):
>     file = open(filename,"r")

file is not a good name - hides the builtin type of the same name. 
Same for dict, list...

>     alllines = file.read_until("</CsInstruments>")

read_until???

>     pattern1 = re.compile("</")
>     orcfilename = filename[-3:] + "orc"

perhaps you want filename[:-3]+"orc"?

>     for line in alllines:
>         if not pattern1

if not pattern1.search(line):

>              print >>orcfilename, line

Open the output file before the loop, and use its write() method here

>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

Good job for Beautiful Soup: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/



Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 


	
	
		
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