[Tutor] Introduction - log exercise

[Antonio de la Fuente]

* Christian Witts <cwitts at compuscan.co.za> [2009-11-18 09:53:15 +0200]:

> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:53:15 +0200
> From: Christian Witts <cwitts at compuscan.co.za>
> To: Antonio de la Fuente <toni at muybien.org>
> CC: Python Tutor mailing list <tutor at python.org>
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Introduction - log exercise
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> 
> How I would process it:
> 
> from sys import argv, exit
> import gzip
> 
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>    try:
>        fIn = gzip.open(argv[1])
>    except IOError:
>        exit('Cannot open file specified.\n')
> 
>    fOut = open('outputFile', 'a')
> 
>    datablock = []
>    discard = False
>    for line in fIn:
>        if line.strip():
>            if line.strip() == 'foo':
>                discard = True
>            else:
>                datablock.append(line)
>        else:
>            if discard:
>                datablock = []
>                discard = False
>            else:
>                fOut.write(''.join(datablock))
> 
>    fIn.close()
>    fOut.close()

I've borrowed a couple of things from your script.
It is educative for me to see different ways of solving the problem.
Thank you.
> 
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