On 10/6/2010 9:25 AM Eduardo Vieira said... <snip> > Of course this solution is simpler: > extracted = a[a.index("i")+1:] > But I didn't want to build a list in memory with "readlines()" in the > case of a file. This is what I do unless the files are _really big_ For-me-really-big-is-over-200Mb-ish-ly y'rs, Emile