newbie question: if var1 == var2:

[joemacbusiness at gmail.com]

Hi All,

I dont understand why the following code never finds "tree".
I could not find the answer in the Python tutorials.
Here is the code, test43.in, and runtime:

#!/usr/bin/python

fname = open("test43.in")
var = 'tree'

for item in fname:
    print "item: ", item,
    if item == var:
        print "found tree: ", item,
[jmccaughan at dhcppc2 work]$
[jmccaughan at dhcppc2 work]$
[jmccaughan at dhcppc2 work]$ cat test43.in
car
tree
house
pool
dog
cat
wax
candy bar
[jmccaughan at dhcppc2 work]$ python test43.py
item:  car
item:  tree
item:  house
item:  pool
item:  dog
item:  cat
item:  wax
item:  candy bar

Thanks, joemacbusiness at gmail.com