Gustaf wrote: > 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
David Mertz's Text Processing in Python might give you some more efficient (and interesting) ways of approaching the problem. http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
