appending to beginning of line

[Bob X]

Anna wrote:
<snip>
>>  for badword in kw: 
>>	if line.find(...
>>	      found = '... 
>>            print found           # Print the result
> 
> 
> 	else:
> 	  print "-"					# no bad word so print a placeholder
> 
> 
>>      outFile.write(found)   		# Write the result
> 
> 
> This is a question, rather than a suggestion.
> 
> Please don't flame if I've missed something completely obvious to the
> experienced folks here. Any simple explanations of why this is unworkable
> would be welcome. Thank you.
> 
> Anna
Hey Anna, I am a serious newbie as well. I believe (though) I would have 
to test that all I would get is the hyphen and not a hypen plus the 
line. I can play with that and see.

I don't flame.  : )