noro wrote: > Is there a more efficient method to find a string in a text file then: > > f=file('somefile') > for line in f: > if 'string' in line: > print 'FOUND' > > ?
Is this something you want to do only once for a given file ? The replies so far seem to imply so and in this case I doubt that you can do anything more efficient. OTOH, if the same file is to be searched repeatedly for different strings, an appropriate indexing scheme can speed things up considerably on average. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list