[Tutor] Finding word in file

Joseph Quigley cpu.crazy at gmail.com
Wed May 18 23:55:47 CEST 2005


>What are you trying?
>You could simply read through the file line by line using the string
>search methods. Store the previous 2 lines then when found print the
>previous two lines, the current line and then read and print the next
>two lines. There are more sophisticated methods but that should do...

How? Does your tutorial cover that (i don't remember it doing so)?

>You need to catch the error not state it.

OK

>try: f = file(....)
>except IOError: print 'file not....'

Did that, IO Error handling works great now. Thanks
         JQ 



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