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print 'ROOT\tchromosome\t0\nROOT\tcontig\t0'

fout=open('longstr','w')

with open('chromlen') as fin:

        for line in fin:

                lst=line.rstrip().split('\t')

                if lst[0].startswith('Scaffold') or lst[0].startswith('scaffold'):

                        print 'chromosome\t{0}\t{1}'.format(lst[0],lst[1])

                        fout.write(lst[0]+',')

                else:

                        print 'contig\t{0}\t{1}'.format(lst[0],lst[1])

fout.write('\n')

fout.close()

# sort -k2nr