keyword checker - keyword.kwlist

[Peter Otten]

 tom at finland.com wrote:

> Still no go. I just can't get it right. My current script:
> 
> #!usr/bin/env python
> import keyword
> 
> myInput = raw_input('Enter identifier to check >> ')
> if myInput in keyword.kwlist:
>      print myInput, "is keyword"
> 
> else:
>      print myInput, "is not keyword"
> 
> print keyword.kwlist
> print keyword.__file__
> 
> And the output:
> 
> Enter identifier to check >> else
> else
> is not keyword
> ['and', 'as', 'assert', 'break', 'class', 'continue', 'def', 'del',
> 'elif', 'else', 'except', 'exec', 'finally', 'for', 'from', 'global',
> 'if', 'import', 'in', 'is', 'lambda', 'not', 'or', 'pass', 'print',
> 'raise', 'return', 'try', 'while', 'with', 'yield']
> F:\Ohjelmat\Python25\Lib\keyword.pyc

Does

myInput = raw_input("...").strip()
# ...

work?

Your raw_input() seems to be broken and includes the trailing newline. 

Peter