newbie: for loop within for loop question

[takayuki]

Dennis,

thanks for your reply.  unfortunately i accidentally posted only half
of my question!  the "real" post should be up now.

my apologies.

takayuki


On Jun 16, 10:15 am, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr... at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:18:54 -0700 (PDT), takayuki
> <lawtonp... at gmail.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
> > Hi everyone,
>
> > I'm studying python via the excellent "how to think like a python
> > programmer" book by Allen Downey.  Noob question follows...
>
> > I have a txt file (animals.txt) which contains the following text each
> > on a separate line: aardvark, bat, cat, dog, elephant, fish, giraffe,
> > horse, inchworm, jackelope
>
> > I want to create a function that loops through the animals.txt file
> > and does *not* print the word if any of the user specified letters are
> > in that word.
>
> > def hasnolet(x):
>
>         Hope this wasn't a homework assignment... It gave me my first excuse
> to try the set module...
>
> >>> import sets
> >>> words = [  "aardvark", "bat", "cat", "dog", "elephant", "fish" ]
> >>> exclude = "want"
> >>> excludeset = sets.Set(exclude)
> >>> excludeset
>
> Set(['a', 't', 'w', 'n'])>>> for w in words:
>
> ...     if not excludeset.intersection(w):
> ...             print w
> ...
> dog
> fish
>
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