Re: textfile: copy between 2 keywords

2015-09-10 Thread alister
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:11:55 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote: s = """1, 2, 3, 4 > ... #keyword1 ... 3, 4, 5, 6 ... 2, 3, 4, 5 ... #keyword2 ... 4, 5, 6 > ,7""" s[s.find('keyword1') + len('keyword1'):s.find('keyword2') - 1] > '\n3, 4, 5, 6\n2, 3, 4, 5\n' #or s[s.find('keyword1') + len('keywor

Re: textfile: copy between 2 keywords

2015-09-10 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 10.09.15 um 13:18 schrieb Gerald: Hey, is there a easy way to copy the content between 2 unique keywords in a .txt file? example.txt 1, 2, 3, 4 #keyword1 3, 4, 5, 6 2, 3, 4, 5 #keyword2 4, 5, 6 ,7 If "copying" does mean copy it to another file, and you are not obliged to use Python, thi

Re: textfile: copy between 2 keywords

2015-09-10 Thread Jussi Piitulainen
Vlastimil Brom writes: > just to add another possible approach, you can use regular expression Now you have three problems: whatever the two problems are that you are alleged to have whenever you decide to use regular expressions for anything at all, plus all the people piling on you to tell that

Re: textfile: copy between 2 keywords

2015-09-10 Thread Vlastimil Brom
2015-09-10 13:18 GMT+02:00 Gerald : > Hey, > > is there a easy way to copy the content between 2 unique keywords in a .txt > file? > > example.txt > > 1, 2, 3, 4 > #keyword1 > 3, 4, 5, 6 > 2, 3, 4, 5 > #keyword2 > 4, 5, 6 ,7 > > > Thank you very much Hi, just to add another possible approach, you

Re: textfile: copy between 2 keywords

2015-09-10 Thread Jussi Piitulainen
Gerald writes: > Hey, > > is there a easy way to copy the content between 2 unique keywords in a > .txt file? > > example.txt > > 1, 2, 3, 4 > #keyword1 > 3, 4, 5, 6 > 2, 3, 4, 5 > #keyword2 > 4, 5, 6 ,7 Depending on your notion of easy, you may or may not like itertools. The following code gets

Re: textfile: copy between 2 keywords

2015-09-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 09:18 pm, Gerald wrote: > Hey, > > is there a easy way to copy the content between 2 unique keywords in a > .txt file? > > example.txt > > 1, 2, 3, 4 > #keyword1 > 3, 4, 5, 6 > 2, 3, 4, 5 > #keyword2 > 4, 5, 6 ,7 > > > Thank you very much Copy in what sense? Write to ano

textfile: copy between 2 keywords

2015-09-10 Thread Gerald
Hey, is there a easy way to copy the content between 2 unique keywords in a .txt file? example.txt 1, 2, 3, 4 #keyword1 3, 4, 5, 6 2, 3, 4, 5 #keyword2 4, 5, 6 ,7 Thank you very much -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list