[Tutor] print out lines that start with a word

[Alan Gauld]

> I'm trying to get only the lines that start with
> "This" for a text file.
> 
> Here's what I wrote:
> 
> >>> import re
> >>> f = open('c:/lines.txt').readlines()
> >>> for line in f:
> match = re.search('^This',f)
> if line == match:
> print match

try 

     if line.startwith('This'):

its easier!
But your problem above is that match returns a match object 
which is not a string. So you can't compare directly you 
need to extract the string from inside the match object!

HTH

Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web tutor
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