On Mar 14, 11:57 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Laurent Pointal wrote: > > > Steve Holden a écrit : > >> Regular expressions aren't really needed here. Untested code follows: > > >> for line in open('/proc/meminfo').readlines: > > for line in open('/proc/meminfo').readlines(): > > for line in open('/proc/meminfo'): > > >> if line.startswith("Memtotal:"): > >> name, amt, unit = line.split() > >> print name, amt, unit > >> break > > Of course it's cleaner to assign the file object to a name and close the > file explicitly after the loop. > > Ciao, > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
Thanks all for the help with this, am learning a lot; really appreciate it. Tom -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list