Help with Deleting A Line In Python

[TheSnowman37]

I have been looking thourgh the internet for close to an hour and a half, and have yet to find some that A) Works, B) Is Simple to understand so that I can replicate it, and C) Is actually what I'm looking for. All I want to do is just simply remove a line. I'm not looking to remove a specific line with specific text, just a line in a .txt file. Ex:

(The Numbers Just represent the line #, not written to file)

 

1: A

2: C

3: D

4: T

5: X

 

delete line 2-4

 

1: A

2: X

 

The lines won't always have the same text, so I can't just delete that. I'm not going the share the real code as it is all just opening the document, printing it, and closing it. Reply if you need anymore information.

[Hans Christian | Teri]

What exactly is it that you want to do? Print the file and select lines to delete? Just delete line 2 to 4? Either way your problem can probably be solved by loading the lines of text into an array, removing the lines you don't want to keep, and overwriting the file with what lines are left in the array.

[TheSnowman37]

22 minutes ago, Hans Christian | Teri said:

What exactly is it that you want to do? Print the file and select lines to delete? Just delete line 2 to 4? Either way your problem can probably be solved by loading the lines of text into an array, removing the lines you don't want to keep, and overwriting the file with what lines are left in the array.

That worked, thank you. I glad that I could find a good source of information.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

32 minutes ago, TheSnowman37 said:

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This might help you. 

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4710067/using-python-for-deleting-a-specific-line-in-a-file