[Tutor] String Processing Query

[Spyros Charonis]

I have a file with the following contents:

>from header1
abcdefghijkl
mnopqrs
tuvwxyz
*
>from header2
poiuytrewq
lkjhgfdsa
mnbvcxz
*

My string processing code goes as follows:

file1=open('/myfolder/testfile.txt')
scan = file1.readlines()

string1 = ' '
for line in scan:
    if line.startswith('>from'):
        continue
    if line.startswith('*'):
        continue
    string1.join(line.rstrip('\n'))

This code produces the following output:

'abcdefghijkl'
'mnopqrs'
'tuvwxyz'
'poiuytrewq'
'lkjhgfdsa'
'mnbvcxz'

I would like to know if there is a way to get the following
output instead:

'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'

'poiuytrewqlkjhgfdsamnbvcxz'

I'm basically trying to concatenate the strings
in order to produce 2 separate lines
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