-On [20080108 09:21], Horacius ReX ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>I have to search for a string on a big file. Once this string is
>found, I would need to get the number of the line in which the string
>is located on the file. Do you know how if this is possible to do in
>python ?
(Assuming ASCII, otherwise check out codecs.open().)
big_file = open('bigfile.txt', 'r')
line_nr = 0
for line in big_file:
line_nr += 1
has_match = line.find('my-string')
if has_match > 0:
print 'Found in line %d' % (line_nr)
Something to this effect.
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