Stephen Hansen <me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io> wrote:
>On 6/28/10 10:29 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
>> for line in file:
>> match = re.search((seek)",(.*),(.*)", line) # Stuck here
> [ ... ]
> name, foo, bar = line.split(",")
> if seek in name:
> # do something with foo and bar
>
>That'll return True if the word 'seek' appears in the first field of
>what appears to be the comma-delimited line.
If the file input is comma-delimited, then the OP might very well
want a look at the csv module. Something like:
for line in reader(file):
if line[0] == seek:
# first field matches, do something with line[-1] and line[-2]
# -- I'm not quite sure what the semantics of a pair of greedy
# (.*)s would be
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