In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Laurent Pointal wrote: > Steve Holden a écrit : >> Regular expressions aren't really needed here. Untested code follows: >> >> for line in open('/proc/meminfo').readlines: > for line in open('/proc/meminfo').readlines(): for line in open('/proc/meminfo'):
>> if line.startswith("Memtotal:"): >> name, amt, unit = line.split() >> print name, amt, unit >> break Of course it's cleaner to assign the file object to a name and close the file explicitly after the loop. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list