dawenliu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I have a file with this content: > xxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxx > 1 > 0 > 0 > 0 > 1 > 1 > 0 > (many more 1's and 0's to follow) > yyyyy yyyyyy yyy yyyyyy yyyyy yyy > > The x's and y's are FIXED and known words which I will ignore, such as > "This is the start of the file" and "This is the end of the file". The > digits 1 and 0 have UNKNOWN length. I want to extract the digits and > store them in a file. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
[[warning, untested code...]] infile = open('infile.txt') oufile = open('oufile.txt', 'w') for line in infile: if line.strip().isdigit(): oufile.write(line) oufile.close() infile.close() Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list