[Tutor] Import multiple lines of text into a variable

[bob gailer]

On 4/11/2011 5:14 PM, Sean Carolan wrote:
>> So right now my code looks something like this:
>>
>> for line in open('myfile','r'):
>>   if line.startswith('notes'):
>>       ## Assign rest of file to variable
>>
>> Is there an easy way to do this?  Or do I need to read the entire file
>> as a string first and carve it up from there instead?
> I ended up doing this, but please reply if you have a more elegant solution:
>
> if line.startswith('notes'):
>     break
> notes = open('myfile','r').read().split(notes:\n')[1]

Seems like an elegant solution to me, as long as the file fits available 
memory. There will be 2 copies of the file after the split.

Another way:

textFile = open('myfile','r')
for line in textFile:
  if line.startswith('notes'):
   notes = textFile.read()

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