I think what you need to do is to have a nested if_else statment: for line in filelines: if some_condition : break else: do_something_else
If the if statment is excuted then break return to for_loop else do something different then return to for_loop. When I read from a file I read the whole file into a variable then work form the variable file = open('InputString','r') # open file for reading only filelines = map(string.strip,file.readlines()) #remove newlines for string Then you can just use the variable filelines and loop through as much as you like. If I can help you can email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I also use SKYPE username servando_garcia Hope this helped. Cordula's Web wrote: > Hello, > > here's a strange bug (?) I've came across (using Python 2.2): > > # loop_1 > for line in file: > if some_condition(line): break > do_something() > > # loop_2 > for line in file: > do_something_else() > > The problem is, that loop_2 doesn't resume where loop_1 left off, but > skips many lines (a block's worth or so) before continuing. > > Why is this? Is reading from a file non-reentrant? > > It is always possible to slurp the whole file content into a list, and > then iterate through the list, but I want to handle HUGE files too. > > Thanks, > -cpghost. > > -- > Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list