Introduction

The task is to print the lines of text that are not starting with given prefix.

Program

Approach 1

#Open file in read mode
openFile = open('demo.txt', 'r') 
#Open file in write mode
writeFile = open('updatedFile.txt', 'w') 
#Read lines 
for txtLine in openFile .readlines(): 
    if not (txtLine.startswith('Python')): 
        print(txtLine)  
#Write lines to file
        writeFile.write(txtLine) 
writeFile.close() 
openFile.close()

Output:

Approach 2

import re 
#Open file in read mode
openFile = open('demo.txt','r')
#Open file in write mode 
writeFile = open('updatedFile.txt','w')  
for txtLine in openFile.readlines():
#Search pattern 
    search = re.findall("^Python", txtLine)      
    if not search: 
        print(txtLine) 
        writeFile.write(txtLine) 
openFile.close() 
writeFile.close()

Output:

Explanation

Approach 1:

• Open and read the lines of the text file.
• We have used startswith() function to check whether the line is starting with word Python. If the line does not start with word Python, the line is printed on screen and stored to another text file. If the line starts with word Python, the next statement is skipped and we will check the next line.

Approach 2:

• Open and read the lines of the text file.
• We have used regular expression to check for the line starting with Python. If the specified pattern (^Python) is not found, the line is printed on the screen and stored in another file.