find string in file

[Michael Wieher]

2008/3/14, fminervino at gmail.com <fminervino at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi friends !!
>
> I'm neophite about python, my target is to create a programa that
> find  a specific string in text file.
> How can do it?
>
> Thanks
> fel
>
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If your only goal is to find a string in a file, just use grep
>grep -i 'string' filename

its a standard linux command =)

But if you must use python

data=file(filename,'r').read()
if string in data:
   return True
return False
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