Method needed for skipping lines

[Yu-Xi Lim]

Gustaf wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just for fun, I'm working on a script to count the number of lines in 
> source files. Some lines are auto-generated (by the IDE) and shouldn't 
> be counted. The auto-generated part of files start with "Begin VB.Form" 
> and end with "End" (first thing on the line). The "End" keyword may 
> appear inside the auto-generated part, but not at the beginning of the 
> line.
> 
> I imagine having a flag variable to tell whether you're inside the 
> auto-generated part, but I wasn't able to figure out exactly how. Here's 
> the function, without the ability to skip auto-generated code:
> 
> # Count the lines of source code in the file
> def count_lines(f):
>  file = open(f, 'r')
>  rows = 0
>  for line in file:
>    rows = rows + 1
>  return rows
> 
> How would you modify this to exclude lines between "Begin VB.Form" and 
> "End" as described above?
> Gustaf

David Mertz's Text Processing in Python might give you some more 
efficient (and interesting) ways of approaching the problem.

http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/