Chris Hengge wrote: > contents = readlines(myfile, 'r') > Ok, I'm under the impression this is a list of strings (array) Nope. No such thing as arrays in Python. It is a list of strings, that's it. :) > How in the world do I cycle through them looking for words? > > for line in contents: > if line.contains("something") > print line > > Thats a mock up of what I'm looking for. > I tried to figure out how to use re, but that spits out locations in > memory or none it seems. You'd use regular expressions or use if 'astring' in line:
if your use case is simple enough for that. show us what RE you used that gave you trouble. It's hard to help when we don't know where you're getting stuck :) > > Thanks. Sure. -Luke _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor