Simple text parsing gets difficult when line continues to next line

[Roberto Bonvallet]

Jacob Rael wrote:
[...]
> I would line to identify if a line continues (if line.endswith('_'))
> and concate with the next line:
> 
> line = line + nextLine
> 
> How can I get the next line when I am in a for loop using readlines?

Don't use readlines.

    # NOT TESTED
    program = open(fileName)
    for line in program:
	while line.rstrip("\n").endswith("_"):
	    line = line.rstrip("_ \n") + program.readline()
	do_the_magic()

Cheers,
-- 
Roberto Bonvallet