[Solved] Add HTML tags to text using Python

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The code below did what I needed.

with open("finalfile.txt", 'w', encoding='utf-8') as File2, open("test.txt", "r", encoding='utf-8') as File1:
previous_line = ""
new_line = ""
double_dash_prev_line = False
single_dash_prev_line = False
for line in File1:
    current_line = line
    if line[0] == "-":
        if line[1] != "-":
            if single_dash_prev_line == False and double_dash_prev_line == False:
                new_line = "<ul><li> " + current_line[1:]
                File2.write(new_line)
                single_dash_prev_line = True
                double_dash_prev_line = False
            elif single_dash_prev_line == True:
                new_line = "</li><li> " + current_line[1:]
                File2.write(new_line)
                single_dash_prev_line = True
                double_dash_prev_line = False
            elif double_dash_prev_line == True:
                new_line = "</ul></li></ul><ul><li> " + current_line[1:]
                File2.write(new_line)
                single_dash_prev_line = True
                double_dash_prev_line = False


        elif line[1] == "-":
            if single_dash_prev_line == True:
                new_line = "<ul><li> " + line[2:]
                File2.write(new_line)
                double_dash_prev_line = True
                single_dash_prev_line = False
            elif double_dash_prev_line_line == True:
                new_line = "</li><li> " + line[2:]
                File2.write(new_line)
                double_dash_prev_line = True
                single_dash_prev_line = False
    elif single_dash_prev_line == True:
        new_line = "</li></ul> " + current_line[1:]
        File2.write(new_line)
        single_dash_prev_line = False
        double_dash_prev_line = False
    elif double_dash_prev_line_line == True:
        new_line = "</li></ul></ul> " + current_line[1:]
        File2.write(new_line)
        double_dash_prev_line = False
        single_dash_prev_line = False
    else:
        single_dash_prev_line = False
        double_dash_prev_line = False
        File2.write(current_line)

solved Add HTML tags to text using Python