Question

I have a text file that looks like:

text texttext texttext texttext texttext text
text texttext texttext texttext text
==========[start log]====
..
..
..
==============


testtextexttexttesttextexttext
testtextexttexttesttextexttext

==========[start log]====
..
..
..
==============

So I want to create a new file that just has the blocks of:

==========[start log]=== 
..
..
..
=============

All === blocks have 2 blank lines below them.

The ... inside the blocks is actually text.

Answer 1

import re

regex = re.compile('==============.+?==============', re.DOTALL)

with open('in.txt', 'r') as f:
    content = f.read()
matches = regex.findall(content)