import re from itertools import islice """ Read the text file to a list mylist where eache item is a row. 1. Find the start index and end index where lines must be extracted. 2. [index1, index2,.. indexn] new_list_1: mylist[:index1] new_list_2: mylist[index1:index2] ... new_list_3: mylist[indexn:] """ testlist = ['kass','koer'] print('Koer on ' + str(testlist.index('koer')) + 's.' ) def lines_generator(placeholder=0): with open("tabel.txt", "rt") as f: for line in islice(f,0,6 ): yield(line) placeholder=0 mylines = lines_generator() filecontent=[] def myfunc(mylist): for line in mylines: if not p.search(line): line = line.rstrip('\n') line += '\tladu2' filecontent.append(line) else: pop_index = mylist.index(p.search(line).group(0)) mylist.pop(pop_index) ############################################################################# mylist = ['ladu2','ladu3'] p = re.compile("|".join(mylist)) for line in mylines: if not p.search(line): line = line.rstrip('\n') line += '\tladu2' filecontent.append(line) else: pop_index = mylist.index(p.search(line).group(0)) mylist.pop(pop_index) print('koik')