I had thought that may be the only way to do it, I was hoping for something simpler as I wrote earlier.file.readlines() returns a list of lines. You can either call find on each element in this list, like:
for line in myfile.readlines() : if line.find('my particular string') : do_something()
Thanks for your help,
Jeremy
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