Reading a file

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat Feb 14 12:45:44 EST 2009


zaheer.agadi at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi
> 
> How do i read  a file in Python and search a particular pattern
> like I have a file char.txt  which has
> 
> Mango=sweet
> Sky=blue
> 
> I want to get the strings sweet and blue,How to do this..?

for line in open('char.txt'):
   if line.find('sweet') != -1 or line.find('blue') != -1:
     print(line)

Read the section of the Lib Manual on string methods.




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