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Bob X bobx at linuxmail.org
Tue Oct 8 16:36:09 EDT 2002 
Terry Reedy wrote:
> "Bob" <bobx at linuxmail.org> wrote in message
> news:1001ff04.0210080422.1e373e13 at posting.google.com...
> 
>># loop through the list and print the lines to a file
>>for line in inFile.xreadlines():
>>    for badword in kw:
>>        if line.find(badword) > -1:
>>            found = '%s %s' % (badword, line)
>>            print found            # Print the result
>>            outFile.write(found)   # replace with
> 
> 
>>This will print the badword and then the line it is on. For those
>>lines that do not contain a badword I want to place a hyphen "-".
> 
> 
> Is this what you are looking for?
> 
> for line in inFile.xreadlines():
>     ok = True
>     for badword in kw:
>         if line.find(badword) > -1:
>             found = '%s %s\n' % (badword, line)
>             print found,                # Print the result
>             outFile.write(found)   # replace with
>               outfile.write(found+'n') # Write the result
>               ok = False
>     if ok: line = '- ' + line
>         print line,
>         outFile.write(line)
> 
> Terry J. Reedy
Errors out...

   File "D:\Robert\Projects\Python\inplace.py", line 51
     outFile.write(found) # Write the result
     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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