> The other thing I failed to mention is that I need to ensure that I > find the fsType *before* I find the next FontName.
found_fontname = False font_search = '/FontName /ACaslonPro-Semibold' type_search = '/FSType 8' for line in file('foo.txt'): if font_search in line: if found_fontname: print "Uh, oh!" else: found_fontname = True if found_fontname and type_search in line: print 'doing something with %s' % line # reset to look for font_search found_fontname = False and look for it to report "Uh, oh!" where it has found another "/FontName /ACaslonPro-Semibold". You can reduce your font_search to just '/FontName' if that's all you care about, or if you just want any '/FontName' inside an '/ACaslonPro-SemiBold' block, you can tweak it to be something like for line in file('foo.txt'): if found_fontname and '/FontName' in line: print "Uh, oh!" if font_search in line: found_fontname = True -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list