newbie question: if var1 == var2:
Massimo Di Pierro
mdipierro at cs.depaul.edu
Sat Nov 29 17:29:11 EST 2008
because when you loop over open(...) is the same as looping over open
(...).readlines() and readlines() reads everything including newlines.
Try replace:
> if item == var:
with
> if item.strip() == var:
Massimo
On Nov 28, 2008, at 9:47 PM, joemacbusiness at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I dont understand why the following code never finds "tree".
> I could not find the answer in the Python tutorials.
> Here is the code, test43.in, and runtime:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> fname = open("test43.in")
> var = 'tree'
>
> for item in fname:
> print "item: ", item,
> if item == var:
> print "found tree: ", item,
> [jmccaughan at dhcppc2 work]$
> [jmccaughan at dhcppc2 work]$
> [jmccaughan at dhcppc2 work]$ cat test43.in
> car
> tree
> house
> pool
> dog
> cat
> wax
> candy bar
> [jmccaughan at dhcppc2 work]$ python test43.py
> item: car
> item: tree
> item: house
> item: pool
> item: dog
> item: cat
> item: wax
> item: candy bar
>
> Thanks, joemacbusiness at gmail.com
>
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