Python: saving a new file deleting all data outside a given range of time

i’ve a file like the following:

01/31/2021 08:51:41.222 5777 40.26
01/31/2021 08:51:41.441 5802 40.26
01/31/2021 08:51:41.644 5786 40.26
01/31/2021 08:51:41.847 5793 40.29
01/31/2021 08:51:42.050 5776 40.29
01/31/2021 08:51:42.269 5798 40.29
01/31/2021 08:51:42.456 5791 40.26
01/31/2021 08:51:42.660 5800 40.26
01/31/2021 08:51:42.878 5781 40.26
01/31/2021 08:51:43.081 5793 40.29
01/31/2021 08:51:43.300 5795 40.29
01/31/2021 08:51:43.519 5799 40.29

Named for example file.txt, i’m just interested in date and time and the third value; not interested with the last one. Like for example 01/31/2021 08:51:42.878 5781. So i’ve a time and a value i’m interested with. My aim is to select a range of time and save all the things in this range into a new file because i’ve a really long list in this first file, like datas from the whole day but i’m interested in something like 50 minutes. Imagine from the given example i want only to save data at 8:51:42 and delete the other things. I want to have a new file with this lines in the end (to be honest the last value, the temperature, is not needed):

01/31/2021 08:51:42.269 5798 40.29
01/31/2021 08:51:42.456 5791 40.26
01/31/2021 08:51:42.660 5800 40.26
01/31/2021 08:51:42.878 5781 40.26

That’s what i’m trying to code:

start = (input('Insert starting time for your range:'))
end = (input('Insert ending time for your range:'))

with open(r"C:UsersUsernameDesktopfile.txt", "r") as fp:
    lines = fp.readlines()
    date = [line.split()[0] for line in lines]  
    hours = [line.split()[1] for line in lines]
    signal = [float(line.split()[2]) for line in lines]
    temperature = [float(line.split()[3]) for line in lines]

full_time = [d + h for d,h in zip(date, hours, start, end)]
datetime_object = [datetime.strptime(ft, '%d/%m/%Y%H:%M:%S.%f') for ft in full_time]
bad_time = ['start','end']
with open('file.txt') as oldfile, open('newfile.txt', 'w') as newfile:
    for line in oldfile:
        if not any(    ):
            newfile.write(line)

I’m experiencing problem already when manually writing start and end date and time because there are problems while converting into the datetime_object. But i’m also wondering how can i remove all the lines i’m not interested with and finally save my file. Infact there are missing stuff on this topic in the code, i was trying to find a solution but already got headache so I’ve decided to ask for help here instead of exploring pages with the search bar :p All the help or external documentations would be appreciated. I’m pretty a newbie with python, don’t eat me please if possible :)

edit: What i want to do is: the user define start time and end time, then save lines from the files between start and end, delete the 4th value and write all into a new file.

Answer

start = (input('Insert starting time for your range:'))
end = (input('Insert ending time for your range:'))



startDate, startTime = start.split(" ")
startMonth, startDay, startYear = startDate.split("/")


endDate, endTime = end.split(" ")
endMonth, endDay, endYear = endDate.split("/")


with open("a.txt", "r") as fp:
    lines = fp.readlines()
    dates = [line.split()[0] for line in lines]  
    times = [line.split()[1] for line in lines]
    signals = [float(line.split()[2]) for line in lines]

final = []

for date, time, signal in zip(dates, times, signals):
    month, day, year = date.split("/")

    if startYear <= year <= endYear:
        if startMonth <= month <= endMonth:
            if startDay <= day <= endDay:
                if startTime <= time <= endTime:
                    final.append(f"{date} {time} {signal}")

print(final)

with open("z.txt", "w") as f:
    for line in final:
        print(line)
        f.write(line + "n")

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