[Tutor] Dodgey if loop ?

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that nick at javacat.f2s.com may have mentioned these words:
[snip]

Others have mentioned a problem with your algorithm, but there is an 
indentation problem with your code:

>Here's the offending code:
>
>[code]
>pnumber = str(pnumber) #pnumber is 25 for example
>for line in f: # f is '/etc/services' open file
>     if not line.startswith('#') and len(line) > 10:
>         p = line.split()[1].split('/')[0]
>             if p == pnumber:

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This line should not be indented -- and *might* cause problems, tho
I did not test the code...

>                 return line.split()[0] # would return 'smtp'
>             #else:
>                 #return '?'
>[/code]

Hope this helps,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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