Parsing Text file

Tue Jul 2 16:28:26 EDT 2013

On 2 July 2013 20:50, Tobiah <toby at tobiah.org> wrote:
> How do we know whether we have Sometext?
> If it's really just a literal 'Sometext', then
> just print that when you hit maskit.
>> Otherwise:
>>> for line in open('file.txt').readlines():
>> if is_sometext(line):
> memory = line
>> if line == 'maskit':
> print memory

My understanding of the question follows more like:
# Python 3, UNTESTED
memory = []
for line in open('file.txt').readlines():
 if line == 'maskit':
 print(*memory, sep="")
 elif line:
 memory.append(line)
 else:
 memory = []