[Tutor] regular expression problem
Spencer Parker
inthefridge at gmail.com
Wed Apr 15 18:59:34 CEST 2009
After he said that...I realized where I was being dumb...
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:29 AM, bob gailer <bgailer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Spencer Parker wrote:
>
>> I have a python script that takes a text file as an argument. It then
>> loops
>> through the text file pulling out specific lines of text that I want. I
>> have a regular expression that evaluates the text to see if it matches a
>>
>> specific phrase. Right now I have it writing to another text file that
>> output. The problem I am having is that it finds the phrase prints it,
>> but
>> then it continuously prints the statement. There is only 1 entries in the
>>
>> file for the result it finds, but it prints it multiple times...several
>> hundred before it moves onto the next one. But it appends the first one
>> to
>> the next entry...and does this till it finds everything.
>>
>> http://dpaste.com/33982/
>>
>>
>> Any Help?
>>
>>
>
> dedent the 2nd for loop.
>
> --
> Bob Gailer
> Chapel Hill NC
> 919-636-4239
>
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