Introduction to Programming using Python 1st Edition

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ISBN 10: 0132747189
ISBN 13: 978-0-13274-718-9

Chapter 13 - Files and Exception Handling - Programming Exercises - Page 471: 13.1

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# 13.1 (Remove text) Write a program that removes all the occurrences of a specified # string from a text file. Your program should prompt the user to enter a filename # and a string to be removed. filename = input("Enter a filename: ").strip() string = input("Enter the string to be removed: ") file = open(filename, 'r') data = '' for line in file: data += line.replace(string, '') resFile = open('result', 'w') resFile.write(data) resFile.close() print("Done")
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