> I'm neophite about python, my target is to create a programa that > find a specific string in text file. > How can do it?
>>> FNAME1 = 'has.txt' >>> FNAME2 = 'doesnt_have.txt' >>> TEXT = 'thing to search for' >>> TEXT in file(FNAME1).read() True >>> TEXT in file(FNAME2).read() False or that may not be what your teacher wants, but if you give the homework problem and what you've tried, we might be able to give you some more quality guidance. :) The above is *really* *bad* code...horribly suboptimal especially as files get large. It only returns a boolean value. You might prefer to enumerate the file's contents and, if any line contains the search-text, return that line offset without reading the rest of the file. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
