Re: python copy selected lines from one file to another using argparse or getopt

2014-01-08 Thread Dave Angel
On Wed, 8 Jan 2014 13:51:40 -0800 (PST), sagarnild...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to write a program in python which searches for user specified words in a txt file and copies the selected lines containing that word into another file. John Gordon has given you a good start on argument parsing

Re: python copy selected lines from one file to another using argparse or getopt

2014-01-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 08/01/2014 21:51, sagarnild...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to write a program in python which searches for user specified words in a txt file and copies the selected lines containing that word into another file. Also the user will have an option to exclude any word. (e.g Suppose the user

Re: python copy selected lines from one file to another using argparse or getopt

2014-01-08 Thread John Gordon
In sagarnild...@gmail.com writes: > But I don't know how to: > Include multiple search word and exclude words > How to denote them by -e and -s. I have seen the argparse and the getopt > tutorial. But there's no tutorial on this specific topic. This should help you get started: import arg