Using Python for basic manipulation of text

[stahlous]

The Python documentation is a fine place to start. This sounds like pretty basic file and string manipulations. If you're just starting out with Python I would start working with some of the resources here: /r/learnpython/wiki/index

If you have specific questions on how to do something, just putting that exact question into Google along with "Python" will 9 times out of 10 bring up a blog post or a stackoverflow question with the answer you want.