Re: start reading from certain line

2008-07-10 Thread Iain King
On Jul 10, 4:54 pm, Iain King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 10, 2:45 pm, jstrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Here's a simple way to do it with a minimum amount of loopiness (don't > > forget to use 'try-except' or 'with' in real life): > > > f = open("item1.txt") > > > for preline in f:

Re: start reading from certain line

2008-07-10 Thread Iain King
On Jul 10, 2:45 pm, jstrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a simple way to do it with a minimum amount of loopiness (don't > forget to use 'try-except' or 'with' in real life): > > f = open("item1.txt") > > for preline in f: >     if "Item 1" in preline: >         print preline, >         for

Re: start reading from certain line

2008-07-10 Thread jstrick
Here's a simple way to do it with a minimum amount of loopiness (don't forget to use 'try-except' or 'with' in real life): f = open("item1.txt") for preline in f: if "Item 1" in preline: print preline, for goodline in f: # could put an end condition with a 'break'

Re: start reading from certain line

2008-07-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:59:32 -0700, norseman wrote: > I would use: > > readthem= 0 > file=open(filename,'r') > while readthem == 0: >line=file.readline() >if not line: > break >if 'Item 1' in line: > readthem= 1 > # print line # uncomment if 'Item 1' is to

Re: start reading from certain line

2008-07-09 Thread norseman
Tim Cook wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 03:30 -0700, antar2 wrote: I am a starter in python and would like to write a program that reads lines starting with a line that contains a certain word. For example the program starts reading the program when a line is encountered that contains 'item 1' T

Re: start reading from certain line

2008-07-09 Thread A.T.Hofkamp
On 2008-07-09, antar2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a starter in python and would like to write a program that reads > lines starting with a line that contains a certain word. > For example the program starts reading the program when a line is > encountered that contains 'item 1' > > > The weat

Re: start reading from certain line

2008-07-09 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 03:30 -0700, antar2 wrote: > I am a starter in python and would like to write a program that reads > lines starting with a line that contains a certain word. > For example the program starts reading the program when a line is > encountered that contains 'item 1' > > > The we

Re: start reading from certain line

2008-07-09 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 03:30 -0700, antar2 wrote: > I am a starter in python and would like to write a program that reads > lines starting with a line that contains a certain word. > For example the program starts reading the program when a line is > encountered that contains 'item 1' > > > The w

Re: start reading from certain line

2008-07-09 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
antar2 wrote: > I am a starter in python and would like to write a program that reads > lines starting with a line that contains a certain word. > For example the program starts reading the program when a line is > encountered that contains 'item 1' > > > The weather is nice > Item 1 > We will g