newbie question: if var1 == var2:

[alex23]

On Nov 29, 1:53 pm, joemacbusin... at gmail.com wrote:
> I dont understand why the following code cannot find the
> variable "tree".
>
> fname = open("test43.in")
> var = 'tree'
>
> for item in fname:

This will include the EOL character for each line.
Try adding the following line here:

      item = item.strip()

>     print "item: ", item,

This would have been more obvious without the trailing ',' which
suppresses a new-line being added when printing.

>     if item == var:
>         print "found tree: ", item,