Liam Clarke wrote:
openFile=file("probe_pairs.txt","r") probe_pairs=openFile.readlines()
openFile.close()
indexesToRemove=[]
for lineIndex in range(len(probe_pairs)):
if probe_pairs[lineIndex].startswith("Name="): probe_pairs[lineIndex]=''
If the intent is simply to remove all lines that begin with "Name=", and setting those lines to an empty string is just shorthand for that, it'd make more sense to do this with a filtering list comprehension:
openfile = open("probe_pairs.txt","r")
probe_pairs = openfile.readlines()
openfile.close() probe_pairs = [line for line in probe_pairs \
if not line.startswith('Name=')](The '\' line continuation isn't strictly necessary, because the open list-comp will do the same thing, but I'm including it for readability's sake.)
If one wants to avoid list comprehensions, you could instead do:
openfile = open("probe_pairs.txt","r")
probe_pairs = [] for line in openfile.readlines():
if not line.startswith('Name='):
probe_pairs.append(line)openfile.close()
Either way, lines that start with 'Name=' get thrown away, and all other lines get kept.
Jeff Shannon Technician/Programmer Credit International
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