"Jason Conner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
building a program that will take a text file, search for a string
in that
text file. Once it finds the string its looking for, I want to put
the next
five lines of text into a variable. Here's what I have so far:
def loadItem(self, objectToLoad):
x = 0
wordList = []
fobj = file()
This does nothing. file() is just an alias for open()
fobj.open("itemconfig.txt", 'rU')
for line in fobj.readline():
And you can iterate over the file itself so this could become:
for line in file(("itemconfig.txt", 'rU'):
if line == objectToLoad:
while x != 5
for word in line.split():
wordList.append(word)
x += 1
This isn't quite what you said above in that you didn't mention
storing the individual words...
thing = item(wordList[0], wordList[1], wordList[2], wordList[3],
wordList[4])
But this could just be:
thing = line.split[:5] # use slicing to get first 4 items
itemList.append(thing)
or even make it all one line here...
Now to get the next 4 lines as well set a flag/counter. say linecount.
Set it to 0 at the top then
linecount = 0
for line in file("itemconfig.txt", 'rU'):
if line == objectToLoad or linecount > 0:
if linecount == 0: linecount = 5 # set linecount on first
line
itemList.append(line.split()[:5])
linecount -= 1
HTH,
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
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