python中如何在写文件之前删除文件内容_如何在python中删除文件的一部分？

I have a file named a.txt which looks like this:

I'm the first line

I'm the second line.

There may be more lines here.

I'm below an empty line.

I'm a line.

More lines here.

Now, I want to remove the contents above the empty line(including the empty line itself).

How could I do this in a Pythonic way?

解决方案

Basically you can't delete stuff from the beginning of a file, so you will have to write to a new file.

I think the pythonic way looks like this:

# get a iterator over the lines in the file:

with open("input.txt", 'rt') as lines:

# while the line is not empty drop it

for line in lines:

if not line.strip():

break

# now lines is at the point after the first paragraph

# so write out everything from here

with open("output.txt", 'wt') as out:

out.writelines(lines)

Here are some simpler versions of this, without with for older Python versions:

lines = open("input.txt", 'rt')

for line in lines:

if not line.strip():

break

open("output.txt", 'wt').writelines(lines)

and a very straight forward version that simply splits the file at the empty line:

# first, read everything from the old file

text = open("input.txt", 'rt').read()

# split it at the first empty line ("\n\n")

first, rest = text.split('\n\n',1)

# make a new file and write the rest

open("output.txt", 'wt').write(rest)

Note that this can be pretty fragile, for example windows often uses \r\n as a single linebreak, so a empty line would be \r\n\r\n instead. But often you know the format of the file uses one kind of linebreaks only, so this could be fine.