File Handling Problem

[Stephen Fairchild]

joy99 wrote:

> Dear Group,
> 
> I have a file. The file has multiple lines. I want to get the line
> number of any one of the strings.
> Once I get that I like to increment the line number and see the string
> of the immediate next line or any following line as output. The
> problem as I see is nicely handled in list,
> 
> like list_one=["god","earth","sky","cloud","rain"]
>       list_one[0]="god"
>       list_one[2]="sky"
> 
> but can it be for string and file?

It's easy to read a file into a list.

f = open("myfile.txt", "r")
list_one = f.read().splitlines()
f.close()
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Stephen Fairchild