search speed

[alex23]

On Jan 30, 2:56 pm, r <rt8... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 29, 5:51 pm, anders <anders.u.pers... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > if file.findInFile("LF01"):
> > Is there any library like this ??
> > Best Regards
> > Anders
>
> Yea, it's called a for loop!
>
> for line in file:
>     if "string" in line:
>         do_this()

Which is what the OP is already doing:

> (Today i step line for line and check)

anders, you might have more luck with one of the text search libraries
out there:

PyLucene (although this makes Java a dependency): http://lucene.apache.org/pylucene/
Nucular: http://nucular.sourceforge.net/
mxTextTools: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/mxTextTools/