Question

A file ProgramInput.txt has this as its content

<start>
content
...
...
...
<stop>

<start>
content
...
...
<stop>

and so on

How do I iterate over the txt file , so that I take out the content between each and and store it in a different file in each iteration ?

Answer 1

The easiest way, I can think of it is

contents = []

with open('file') as f:
     for line in f:
         if line.startswith('<start>'):
            pass
         contents.append(line)

contents = "".join(contents)
sections = contents.split("<stop>")

Basically, make use of the pattern behavior and store in a list, and then use the pattern again to get the sections.