On 3/16/07, Qilong Ren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a question. I need to do some text processing. I need to read from a
> file line by line. If some line is met with some condition, the previous
> line needs some modification. How to get the info of the previous line?

I would do something like the following:

inFile = open("LICENSE.txt")

prev_line = None
for line in inFile:
    if "foo" in line:
        print prev_line
        print line
    prev_line = line
inFile.close()

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Jerry
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