On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Brett Hedges <lilhedge...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using both xreadlines and files iterators for a script that I need to
> finish. I am iterating over the entire file but stopping to use xreadlines to
> grab certain lines as strings to process them.
>
> My question is how do I go to a previous line in the file? xreadlines has a
> file.next() statement that gives the next line, and I need a statement that
> gives me the previous line.
>
> My script has a loop that looks for a certain word then breaks the loop. But
> I need to go to the previous line before I break since the script uses that
> line (which gets processed). I'm sure there is an easier way to do this but
> since I am new to python and have spent a lot of time on this script I can't
> really go back and change a lot of things unless there is no possible way.
> Something like the example below.
>
> f.open("text.txt",'r')
> files = f.xreadlines()
> Name = "Section 1"
>
>
prev_line = None
> for line in f:
> if Name in line:
> while x<20
> field = files.next()
> if "2.6" in field:
use(prev_line)
> *****files.previousline()*****
> break
prev_line = line
> x=x+1
Also, you could probably make the loop prettier by using enumerate()
or range() to track `x`.
Cheers,
Chris
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