Gardner, Dean wrote: > Hi Folks > > I wish to isolate certain changelog entries and display them to the > user, for example: > > Changelog.txt > > ----------Some Module <Tag> ---------- > M 000751 - Title >> what was amended > Reviewed by: Someone > > For this text file I wish to find all entries for 000751 and then > present each of the changelog entries. > > My thought was to > identify the "----" with a regular expression > identifying this as the changelog start
You probably don't need a regex here, something like if line.startswith('----------'): will probably work > attempt to find the item number if line.split()[1] == '000751': > if it isn't found move on, if it is found then add this to a list. > > But I feel as though there must be a simpler and more effecient way. This sounds good to me except for the regex. Can you show us your code? Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor