parsing text from a file

Wes James comptekki at gmail.com
Thu Jan 29 16:54:34 EST 2009


If I read a windows registry file with a line like this:

"{C15039B5-C47C-47BD-A698-A462F4148F52}"="v2.0|Action=Allow|Active=TRUE|Dir=In|Protocol=6|Profile=Public|App=C:\\Program
Files\\LANDesk\\LDClient\\tmcsvc.exe|Name=LANDesk Targeted
Multicast|Edge=FALSE|"

with this code:

f=open('fwrules.reg2.txt')

for s in f:
  if s.find('LANDesk') <0:
    print s,


LANDesk is not found.

Also this does not work:

for s in f:
  try:
    i=s.index('L')
    print s[i:i+7]
 except:
   pass

all it prints is "LAND"

how do I find LANDesk in a string like this.  is the "\\" messing things up?

thx,

-wj



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