[Tutor] Deleting Lines of text

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as far as i know, it's not possible to edit a file in place.  you'll
have to read the contents of the file into memory, make whatever
changes you want, then write it back to a different file. like this (assuming
test.txt is the one you want to edit:
newfile = open('test2.txt', 'w')
file = open('test.txt', 'r')
     lines = file.readlines()
     line = lines.split()
     for line in lines:
          if 'BobH' not in line:
              newfile.write(line):
     file.close()
     newfile.close()

**i didn't test this, so it might not be exact, but that's the idea...

brett
BX> How do I delete a line of text in a file? I want to find the word "BobH" and delete the line it is on and then close the file.


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