How to keep lines which contains specific string and remove other lines from .txt file?

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Example: I want to keep the line which has word "hey" and remove others.

test.txt file:

first line

second one

heyy yo yo

fourth line

Code:

keeplist = ["hey"]
with open("test.txt") as f:
    for line in f:
        for word in keeplist:

Asked By: Karim Mostafa

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Answer 1

Its hard to remove lines from a file. Its usually better to write a temporary file with the desired content and then change that to the original file name.

import os

keeplist = ["hey"]
with open("test.txt") as f, open("test.txt.tmp", "w") as outf:
    for line in f:
        for word in keeplist:
            if word in line:
                outf.write(line)
                break
os.rename("test.txt.tmp", "test.txt")

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