import keyboard import time fi = open("/tmp/eventlist.dat","r") lines = fi.readlines()[3:] fo = open("/tmp/coords","w") for line in lines: if("--" not in line): print(line,end='') fo.write(line) fo.flush() else: if("end" in line): while True: time.sleep(2) key = "n" #key = input() if 'n' in key: break fo.seek(0) fo.truncate(0) print(line,end='') fo.close() fi.close()