On Nov 10, 7:29 am, Thomas Mlynarczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul McGuire schrieb: > > > loc = data.index("list") > > print data[:loc].count("\n")-1 > > print loc-data[:loc].rindex("\n")-1 > > > prints 5,14 > > > I'm sure it's non-optimal, but it *is* an algorithm that does not > > require keeping track of the start of every line... > > Yes, I was thinking of something like this. As long as the line/column > are only needed in case of an error (i.e. at most once per script run), > I consider this more performant than keeping track of line/column for > every token. > > Greetings, > Thomas > > -- > Ce n'est pas parce qu'ils sont nombreux à avoir tort qu'ils ont raison! > (Coluche)
Just be sure to account for tabs when computing the column, which this simple-minded algorithm does not do. -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list