[teknomage1]

So your psuedo code looks like this:

Open File
while there are lines to be read in file
 Store each line as a temporary String
 If string does not match '^-+$' add string to output array
Close file 
Foreach entry in output array
 print string

Now for the match I'd recommend something like re.compile('^-+$').search(tmpstr,1) Here's a link to the pydoc for re http://docs.python.org/lib/module-re.html