Match 2 words in a line of file

[MrJean1]

Without using re, this may work (untested ;-):

def lines_with_words(file, word1, word2):
    """Print all lines in file that have both words in it."""
    for line in file:
        words = line.split()
        if word1 in words and word2 in words:
            print line


/Jean Brouwers


Rickard Lindberg wrote:
> elrondrules at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Am pretty new to python and hence this question..
> >
> > I have file with an output of a process. I need to search this file one
> > line at a time and my pattern is that I am looking for the lines that
> > has the word 'event' and the word 'new'.
> >
> > Note that i need lines that has both the words only and not either one
> > of them..
> >
> > how do i write a regexp for this.. or better yet shd i even be using
> > regexp or is there a better way to do this....
> >
> > thanks
>
> Maybe something like this would do:
>
> import re
>
> def lines_with_words(file, word1, word2):
>     """Print all lines in file that have both words in it."""
>     for line in file:
>         if re.search(r"\b" + word1 + r"\b", line) and \
>            re.search(r"\b" + word2 + r"\b", line):
>             print line
>
> Just call the function with a file object and two strings that
> represent the words that you want to find in each line.
>
> To match a word in regex you write "\bWORD\b".
>
> I don't know if there is a better way of doing this, but I believe that
> this should at least work.