On 2013-07-02, sas4...@gmail.com <sas4...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a text file like this: > > Sometext > Somemore > Somemore > maskit > > Sometext > Somemore > Somemore > Somemore > maskit > > Sometext > Somemore > maskit > > I want to search for the string maskit in this file and also > need to print Sometext above it..SOmetext location can vary as > you can see above. > > In the first instance it is 3 lines above mask it, in the > second instance it is 4 lines above it and so on.. > > Please help how to do it?
How can you tell the difference between Sometext and Somemore? -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list