Getting the previous line in Jython

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Published on 2010-03-24T14:09:54Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 15:33 UTC
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I want to print the line immediately before the searched string. How can I do that?

Lets say my two lines are

AADRG
SDFJGKDFSDF

and I am searching for SDF. I have found SDFJGKDFSDF, but how can I obtain the previous line AADRG? Does file.readline()-1 work?

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