On Jun 20, 10:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I want to take read an input file (sels.txt) that looks like: > > Begin sels > sel1 = {1001, 1002, 1003, ... > ... > 1099} > > sel2 = {1001, 1008, 1009 ... > ... > 1299} > End sels > > And turn it into an output file for each of the "sels" in the input file, i.e > sel1.txt: > > L1001 > L1002 > L1003 > ... > L1099 > > and sel2.txt: > > L1001 > L1008 > L1009 > ... > L1299 > > And so on. Many thanks, > Wayne
hehe... After Bruno's suggested read, go here: http://docs.python.org/tut/ Look at the string module.. specifically .strip() and .split(",") Also look at reading files and perhaps lists. for line in open("filename.txt", 'r').readlines(): handle_the_line() Good Luck. ~Sean -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list