[Tutor] newbie problems

[Stephen_Gilbert@npd.com]

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Help!

I'm trying to write a simple script to:

      open 2 files one new file for writing, one existing file to read
from, =20
      read a line at a time and write it to the new file,
      if the first 3 bytes of the line is "+++" =20
      then I want to take 5 bytes starting at position 15 and append it
to the end of each line.

I have done this type of processing on many different platforms in the
past, but now I need to do it using Python on Unix. =20
I have figured out how to open the files and how to read each line into
a string variable. However I can't figure out how to parse the variable
and concatenate the new string to write out to the new file. Any help
would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

Steve

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