#Jay W. Summet
# CS 1301, Released to the public domain october 2007
#

#This funtion will copy the contents of the origin file
#into the destination file while removing any lines that start with a # mark.
def filterFile(origin, destination):
    inFile = open(origin, "r")
    outFile = open(destination, "w")

    
    FileNotEmpty = True
    
    while( FileNotEmpty)  :
        fileContents = inFile.readline()

        if ( len(fileContents) == 0):
           FileNotEmpty = False
        else:
            if '#' == fileContents[0]  :
                print "didn't write:", fileContents
            else:
                outFile.write(fileContents)


   

    outFile.close()
    inFile.close()



filterFile("myFile.txt", "newOutFile.txt")