Once i have this working i was planing to kept all the txt files as logs, i'd have to give them a real name and stuff.
But thanks for you help so far Mark "Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Mark Line" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm managed to get some code to download a message from the email account >> and save it to a text file, does any one have a link to some sample code >> to >> search though a file until a string of characters is matched? Or could >> point me to some functions that may help me with this? > > datafile = open("c:\\myfile.txt", "r") > data = datafile.read() > datafile.close() > start = data.index(myindicator) > > will leave start as the index in data where the the string in > myindicator first appears. If you want the end of myendicator, use > start = data.find(myindicator) + len(myindicator). > > Have you considered not saving the message to disk? You can manipulate > it all in memory. > >> I've also managed to connect to my access database, and just print out a >> field in a table, but I cant find anywhere on the web that will help me >> to >> import data? Any help would be great?! > > Can't help with that. The phrase "win32com" comes to mind, but I'm not > a windows person. > > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more > information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list