> Hello, I have a file that has over 6500 lines of code I want to use but
> almost every line has a '+' in front of it. The code is from a patch
> file that I couldn't get to patch so I am doing it manually. Can anyone
or, if you're inclined for something a little meatier:
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#!/usr/bin/python
# python: live it, learn it, love it.
# ok, this trims the first character from every line of file 'butt' and
# writes the new file as 'butt.out'
# you need to 'rm butt.out' every time, because this just appends the
# text..
from string import find
input = open('butt', 'r')
output = open('butt.out', 'a')
while 1:
line = input.readline()
if not line:
break
point = line[0:1]
if find(line, '+', 0) <>-1:
trim = line[2:-1]
output.write(trim + '\n')
else:
output.write(line)
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