"Hugo Arts" <hugo.yo...@gmail.com> wrote
the most obvious answer would be to take a look at the 'next()'
function, that should solve this immediate problem.
This would be nmy advice too, but you need to get an explicit iterator to
use it.
it = open(.....)
for line in it:
if 'NEW' in line:
ln = it.next()
etc...
Yet another approach is to abandon the for loop entirely, and use a
while loop combined with the readline method,
I prefer the next() approach.
But a third option is to use a split and apply it to the whole file as
a string thereby breaking the file into as many chunks as start with
a line containing 'NEW'...
data = open(....).read()
for chunk in data.split('NEW'):
for line in chunk.split('\n'): # create lines out of the chunks - you
may not need this
# process lines till done
Just a thought.
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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