Basic Python 3 Win 10 Search Txt to File Newbie

[rlgoodman]

You could have one loop do both the reading and writing; this is probably better anyway if that's all you are doing.

    infile = open("C:\\Users\\John\Desktop\\StuffIn.txt", "r")
    outfile = open("C:\\Users\\John\Desktop\\StuffOut.txt", "w")
    for line in infile:
        if stringToMatch in line:
            #write it to the output file
            outfile.write(line)
    infile.close()
    outfile.close()