Equivalent string.find method for a list of strings

[Steve Holden]

jeremit0 wrote:
> harold fellermann wrote:
> 
>> file.readlines() returns a list of lines. You can either call find on 
>> each
>> element in this list, like:
>>
>> for line in myfile.readlines() :
>>     if line.find('my particular string') :
>>         do_something()
>>
> I had thought that may be the only way to do it, I was hoping for 
> something simpler as I wrote earlier.
> Thanks for your help,
> Jeremy
> 
If you want line numbers,. of course, then you can use

   for linenum, line in enumerate(myfile.readlines()):
       ...

Remember that true to Python's philosophy numbering will start at zero.

regards
  Steve
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