How to delete specific strings from a file?

Question

I have a data file (unstructured, messy file) from which I have to scrub specific list of strings (delete strings).

Here is what I am doing but with no result:

Answer 1

Maybe you can add encoding='utf-8' in your fin and fout variables. Here is the modified one you may want to use:

fin=open(infile,"", encoding='utf-8')
fout = open(outfile,"w+", encoding='utf-8')

This(adding utf-8) mostly occurs on the OS Windows. Also for reading, writing, and appending the file, this usually isn't a problem but for advanced things to do a file like replacing text in there, etc then you should do this.

Hope this helps you.