[Tutor] bruteforce match word in text file

[bob gailer]

David wrote:
> I have to ask for a pointer, not sure what I am doing wrong.

The first thing you are doing "wrong" is failing to tell us what is in 
the wordlist file and what results you get when you run the program.

Please re-post with that information.
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
> password = 'loser'
> wordlist = '/home/david/Challenge-You/wordlist.txt'
> try:
>     words = open(wordlist, 'r').readlines()
> except IOError, e:
>     print "Sorry no words"
> for word in words:
>     word = word.replace("\n","")
>     if password in word:
>         print word
>     else:
>         print 'You are a loser'
>


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Bob Gailer
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