c = 0 f = open("c:/conv.kss", "r") rawlines = f.readlines() f.close output = open("c:/mytest2.kss", 'w') for line in rawlines: if c > 1: myvar = line.split(',') if len(myvar) > 5: print myvar[3] print myvar[4] output.write(line.replace(myvar[4], myvar[3])) else: output.write(line) else: output.write(line) c = c + 1 output.close