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 weather is nice > Item 1 > We will go to the seaside > ... > > Only the lines coming after Item 1 should be read
file=open(filename) while True: line=file.readline() if not line: break if 'Item 1' in line: print line HTH, Tim -- ************************************************************************** Join the OSHIP project. It is the standards based, open source healthcare application platform in Python. Home page: https://launchpad.net/oship/ Wiki: http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/dev/Python+developer%27s+page **************************************************************************
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