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I have a text file like this

ababaabababab
+hostname R1
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
 +shutdown
+banner login
-hostname r
ababababababa
ababaabababab
r#

I would like to get something like this output

>>> print running_conf

+hostname R1
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
 +shutdown
+banner login



>>> print saved_conf 
-hostname r
ababababababa
ababaabababab

After trying so many stuff on this site, I still can't make it work. this is my code

with open ("file.text", "r") as saveoutput:
 for line in saveoutput:
 if line.startswith( '+' ):
 continue
 if line.startswith( '-' ):
 break
 print line
 for line in saveoutput:
 if line.startswith( '-' ):
 if line.endswith( '#' ):
 break
 print line

The following code will output everything in your file from a line starting with '+' onwards till a line starting with "-" gets reached:

copy = False

with open ("file.text", "r") as saveoutput:
 for line in saveoutput:
 if line.startswith( '+' ):
 copy = True
 if line.startswith( '-' ):
 copy = False
 if copy:
 print line

and the following program

copy = False

with open ("file.text", "r") as saveoutput:
 for line in saveoutput:
 if line.startswith( '-' ):
 copy = True
 if line.endswith( '#' ):
 copy = False
 if copy:
 print line

will output everything from the first line starting with a "-" till the line ending with a "#". In case you want to have a single program that is doing both actions altogether:

copy1 = False
copy2 = False

with open ("file.text", "r") as saveoutput:
 for line in saveoutput:
 if line.startswith( '+' ):
 copy1 = True
 if line.startswith( '-' ):
 copy1 = False
 if line.startswith( '-' ):
 copy2 = True
 if line.endswith( '#' ):
 copy2 = False
 if copy1 or copy2:
 print line

Below is the program that gives your desired output, although please specify the cases of your output clearly.

flag=False
with open ("file.txt", "r") as saveoutput:
 for line in saveoutput:
 if line.startswith('-'):
 flag=False
 elif line.startswith('+'):
 flag=True
 if flag:
 print(line,end='')

print('------------------------')
flag=False
with open ("file.txt", "r") as saveoutput:
 for line in saveoutput:
 if (line.startswith('+')) or (line.endswith('#n')):
 flag=False
 elif line.startswith('-'):
 flag=True
 if flag:
 print(line,end='')