My apologies you did indeed use writelines correctly ;)
dohhh!
I had a gut reaction to this.
Py>f = ['hij\n','efg\n','abc\n']
Py> for i in f:
... if i.startswith('a'):
... i == ''
Py> f
['hij\n', 'efg\n', 'abc\n']
Notice that it does not modify the list in any way.
You are trying to loo
Strings have many methods that are worth learning.
If you haven't already discovered dir(str) try it.
Also I am not sure if you were just typing in some pseudocode, but your
use of writelines is incorrect.
help(file.writelines)
Help on built-in function writelines:
writelines(...)
writelines(s
Close:
> if line[:4] == 'Bill':
. ^^
> line == ' '
>
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