New to Python.

[Roy Smith]

In article <h84i501homhvjv6a4ohmf0o4svlakcqtoa at 4ax.com>,
 droog <droog at orange.gov> wrote:

> I was looking for the simpliest way of doing it. This is what I tried
> to do. 
> 
> f = open('C:\Python23\Samples\Bob.txt', 'r')
> counter = 0
> while True:
> 	line = f.readline()
> 	if len(line) == 0:
> 		break
> 	if line.find('customer'):
> 		counter = counter + 1
> 		print 'Found it ' + str(counter)

I cut-and-pasted the above onto my machine (just changed the pathname to 
/usr/share/dict/words).  It finds every line in the file!  The problem 
appears to be that the find() method returns -1 when there's no match, 
which tests as True.  Other than that, the code seems pretty reasonable.