[Tutor] this is ugly

[Charlie Clark]

> 
> > Can line 3 of the following be improved (especially since I might 
want 
> > to search for even more strings within each line):
> 
> > myfile=open(r'F:\logs\myfile.txt', 'r')
> > for line in myfile.readlines():
> >    if line.find("KeC 923") != -1 or line.find("ZEF 156") != -1 or 
> >    line.find("pBX 88347") != -1 or line.find("FZX 17255") != -1:
> >          #code if found

These methods are fine but regular expressions are much better for this 
task. Danny Yoo gave me some help on using re.compile() earlier this 
year so if you check the archives you should find what you need.

Charlie