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"Chris Liechti" <cliechti at gmx.net> wrote in message
news:Xns920BCFECED397cliechtigmxnet at 62.2.16.82...
> so you can search:
> for name,number in addressList:
>     if name == 'chris':
>         print name, number
>         break #found one, don't search for more
> else:
>     print "no matching entries found"
>
> as you see there is no errorchecking in the above bits, for a real usabel
> programm one should check for illegal entries etc.

Thank you, I'll try this!