writing output to file

[Emile van Sebille]

> flout = open('/tmp/otherfile', 'w')
> for line in open('/etc/passwd').readlines() :
>     if line.strip()[0] == '#': continue


And if you're dealing with files that may have blank lines:
    if line.strip()[:1] in ('', '#'): continue
has an advantage of not failing on resulting zero length strings.

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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