[Tutor] Filtering text files

[Alan Gauld]

> statement and then a out.txt is created but is blank. I am guessing
that
> something is wrong with my write command. Thanks again.
>
> Ara
>
>     def filterFile(lmps,out):
>         inp = open("lmps.txt", "r")
>         outp = open("out.txt", "w")
>         while 1:
>             text = inp.readline()
>             if text =="":
>                 break
>             if text[0] =="I":
>                 continue
>         outp.write(text)

This is outside the loop so only the last line gets printed,
but the last line is ""!

You need to move the write inside the loop.

Alan G.