newbe question about removing items from one file to another file

[Eric_Dexter at msn.com]

Anthra Norell wrote:
> Eric,
>    Having played around with problems of this kind for quite some time I find them challenging even if I don't really have time to
> get sidetracked. Your description of the problem makes it all the more challenging, because its 'expressionist' quality adds the
> challenge of guessing what you mean.
>    I'd like to take a look at your data, if you would post a segment on which to operate, the same data the way it should look in
> the end. In most cases this is pretty self-explanatory. Explain the points that might not be obvious to a reader who knows nothing
> about your mission.
>
> Frederic
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Eric_Dexter at msn.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
> To: <python-list at python.org>
> Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 11:35 PM
> Subject: newbe question about removing items from one file to another file
>
>
> > 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
> >
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sorry about that this is a link to a discription of the format
http://kevindumpscore.com/docs/csound-manual/commandunifile.html
It is possible to have more than one instr defined in an .csd file so I
would need to look for that string also if I want to seperate the
instruments out.

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