s99999999s2003 at yahoo.com wrote: > print line.split(":")[-1] > > but line 4 and 5 are not printed as there is no ":" to split. It should > print a "blank" at least. > how to print out lines 4 and 5 ? > eg output is > > yyy > yyy > yyy > > > yyy if ":" in line: print line.split(":")[-1] else: print what's the problem?