[Tutor] Nested, line by line, file reading

[Alan Gauld]

"jon vs. python" <jonvspython at gmail.com> wrote in

> I wanted a little script that would print the line containing "2" 
> and every
> line containing "1" after it. I've tried this:
>
>>>> def p():
>    f = file("prueba.txt",'r')
>    for startline in f.read():
>        if startline.find("2") != -1:
>            print startline
>            for endline in f.read():
>                if endline.find("1") != -1:
>                    print endline
>                    break
>    f.close()

Its easier to iterate over the file itself

found2 = False
for line in file("prueba.txt"):
     if '2' in line: found2 = True
     if found2: print line
     else: continue

Should be close.

HTH,

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