The question is now...what do I do to find duplicate entries in the text file I am reading. I just want to filter them out. There are a ton of duplicate entries in there.
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Spencer Parker <inthefri...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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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