lines = open('/tmp/foo.py', "r").read().splitlines() previous_line = '' for line in lines: if "foo" in line: print "found foo in the current line. The previous line is: " + previous_line previous_line = line

Qilong Ren wrote:
Hi,all

I am new to this list. And I am glade I am here.
I have a question. I need to do some text processing. I need to read from a file line by line. If some line is met with some condition, the previous line needs some modification. How to get the info of the previous line?

Thanks!
Qilong

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