Oh...nice...this makes things much easier than what I had before. I mainly used writelines because I couldn't figure out why it was only writing one line. Then I did and never took out the writelines...I just did and it works just fine for the most part.
Thanks again for the help. On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Kent Johnson <ken...@tds.net> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Spencer Parker <inthefri...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > This is my code: > > http://pastebin.com/m11053edf > > I guess you have something like this now: > > for line in text_file.readlines(): > if line.find('FULLNAME')>=0: > write_file.writelines(line) > > This can be better written as > > for line in text_file: # No need for readlines(), a file is iterable > if 'FULLNAME' in line: > write_file.write(line) # writelines() is for writing multiple lines at > once > > Kent >
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