>What are you trying? >You could simply read through the file line by line using the string >search methods. Store the previous 2 lines then when found print the >previous two lines, the current line and then read and print the next >two lines. There are more sophisticated methods but that should do...
How? Does your tutorial cover that (i don't remember it doing so)? >You need to catch the error not state it. OK >try: f = file(....) >except IOError: print 'file not....' Did that, IO Error handling works great now. Thanks JQ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor