Peter Otten wrote:
In this case I believe I needed the contents in a list because the line I was looking for was above one that I could easily identify. Ie, once I had the index, I could go back/up one index to find the line I needed to process.Here's one way to avoid the list: last_line = None for line in f: if "somestring" in line and last_line is not None: # do something with last_line last_line = line Peter
yup .. this will come in handy in case the file is too big and or really needn't be all in memory. cool. thanks! Esmail -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
