> I know I am wrong here because I do not know how to > search and remove an element in a list. Can any one > please help me.
This is what the filter function is for... But you can use list comprehensions too: [element for element in list if element not foo] so in your case: lst = f.readlines() # get file into a list lst = [line for line in lst if not line.startswith('Name=')] Or something very similar. For more control use a regular expression to filter the lines Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor