Re: [Tutor] Match on current line and next line. Possible?

[Jacob S.]

It's getting late, so if someone already suggested something like this, just 
pretend to smack me across the face, and I'll flinch later...

import re
fi = open('/somefile','r')   ## Don't do readlines and bring the whole file 
in memory...
match1 = re.compile('^Python')
match2 = re.compile('^/tBLAH')
prevline = ''
for line in fi:
   if match1.search(line) and match2.search(line):
       do_something()
   prevline = line
fi.close()

HTH,
Jacob

Hello! How can I instruct Python to match on the current line and the
next line?
Assumptions;
- We are reading in one line at a time
BROKEN EXAMPLE (discussion)
######################
file = open('/somefile','r').readlines()
for line in file:
       match_one = re.search('^Python', line)
       match_two = re.search('^\tBLAH', line)
       if match_one and nextline == match_two:
              do_something()
Maybe this just isn't possible, since we are working line by line.
Any suggestions?
Tom
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