[Tutor] Working with files

[Eve Kotyk]

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How do you open a file, read the file, remove an element in the file and
write it to a backup file.

I can do all of this from the following code from Alan's tutorial except
delete part of the file before rewriting it.

inp = open('menu.txt', 'r')
outp = open('menu.bak', 'w')
for line in inp.readlines():
	#here I would like to say that x = "spam'
	#if x is in inp.readlines del x
	#it seems to me that it doesn't act on the line, it just deletes x.  I
can't 	    #figure out any way to have it del x from line and then
write this line.	outp.write(line)
inp.close()
outp.close()

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