Hi all, Just for fun, I'm working on a script to count the number of lines in source files. Some lines are auto-generated (by the IDE) and shouldn't be counted. The auto-generated part of files start with "Begin VB.Form" and end with "End" (first thing on the line). The "End" keyword may appear inside the auto-generated part, but not at the beginning of the line.
I imagine having a flag variable to tell whether you're inside the auto-generated part, but I wasn't able to figure out exactly how. Here's the function, without the ability to skip auto-generated code: # Count the lines of source code in the file def count_lines(f): file = open(f, 'r') rows = 0 for line in file: rows = rows + 1 return rows How would you modify this to exclude lines between "Begin VB.Form" and "End" as described above? Gustaf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list