> On Behalf Of Horacius ReX > 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 ?
This should be reasonable: >>> for num, line in enumerate(open("/python25/readme.txt")): if "Guido" in line: print "Found Guido on line", num break Found Guido on line 1296 >>> Regards, Ryan Ginstrom -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list