Reading a file

[Philipp Pagel]

zaheer.agadi at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi

> How do i read  a file in Python and search a particular pattern
> like I have a file char.txt  which has

> Mango=sweet
> Sky=blue

> I want to get the strings sweet and blue,How to do this..?

If your entire file consists of such key=value pairs you may want to properly parse them:

for lne in infile:
	line = line.rstrip()
	key, value = line.split('=')
	if key in ('Mango', 'Sky'):
		print value

Or something like that - details depend on what exactly your criteria for
picking the values are, of course.

cu
	Philipp

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Technische Universität München
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