[Tutor] ideas on how to process a file

[Kent Johnson]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Spencer Parker <inthefridge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is my code:
> http://pastebin.com/m11053edf

I guess you have something like this now:

for line in text_file.readlines():
        if line.find('FULLNAME')>=0:
                write_file.writelines(line)

This can be better written as

for line in text_file: # No need for readlines(), a file is iterable
  if 'FULLNAME' in line:
    write_file.write(line)  # writelines() is for writing multiple lines at once

Kent