Jeffrey Maitland wrote:
> file.seek(0,2)
> eof = file.tell() #what this is the position of the end of the file.
> file.seek(0,0)
>
> while file.tell() != eof:
no no no. that's not how you read all lines in a text file -- in any
programming language.
in recent versions of Python, use:
for testline in file:
to loop over all lines in a given file.
> if re.match("#", testline) == True:
> break
ahem. RE's might be nice, but using them to check if a string
starts with a given string literal is a pretty lousy idea.
if testline[0] == "#":
break
works fine in this case (when you use the for-loop, at least).
if testline might be empty, use startswith() or slicing:
if testline.startswith("#"):
break
if testline[:1] == "#":
break
(if the thing you're looking for is longer than one character, startswith
is always almost the best choice)
if you insist on using a RE, you should use a plain if statement:
if re.match(pattern, testline):
break # break if it matched
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