newbe question about removing items from one file to another file

[PetDragon]

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
>