[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > this is cool, it is only going to run about 10 times a day, > > the text is not written out like foo(bar) its more like > foo blah blah blah (bar) >
then I guess you worked this out, but just for completeness: keywordPos = textfile.find("foo") start = textfile.find("(", keywordPos) end = textfile.find(")", start) value = textfile[start:end] Iain -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list