On Sunday 06 January 2008 18:21 Francesco Pietra wrote: > Please, how to adapt the following script (to delete blank lines) to > delete lines containing a specific word, or words? > > f=open("output.pdb", "r") > for line in f: > line=line.rstrip() > if line: > print line > f.close()
>>> import re >>> s = ["hello", "world", "", "\t ", " ", "#asdfasdf"] >>> pattern = re.compile("^\s*$") >>> #only "hello" should be printed as "world" is a word we want to skip >>> for line in s: ... if "world" in line: ... continue ... if pattern.match(line): ... continue ... if line.startswith("#"): ... continue ... print line ... hello >>> you have to adapt it to be able to match more than a single word > If python in Linux accepts lines beginning with # as comment lines, please > also a script to comment lines containing a specific word, or words, and > back, to remove #. yes lines starting with a "#" are comments in python but that shouldn't be of concern for your input data. I don't quite get what you want here... hth martin -- http://noneisyours.marcher.name http://feeds.feedburner.com/NoneIsYours -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list