How to write content of one file to another file in Python

Question

I have a text file containing 10 lines of data such as maddy:1190, johny:1123 and so on. Now I want another text file with only names such as maddy, johny and so on. How to do it?

Answer 1

The following code snippet might solve your problem. Have a look at it.

my_file = open('abc.txt', 'w')
for line in lines:
    var1, var2 = line.split(",");
    my_file.write("%s\n" % var1)

my_file.close()
text_file.close()