[Tutor] Equality Check.

[Mark Lawrence]

On 02/03/2014 21:10, Tyler Simko wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm embarrassingly new at Python, so please forgive my probably simple mistakes.
>
> So I called readlines() on a file, and I'm wondering how I can check the equality of a specific line with a raw_input set variable as a condition. For example,
>
> file = open('filename.txt,' 'r')
> file.readlines()
> variable_name = raw_input()
> if file[2] == variable_name:
>       #whatever
>
> This approach hasn't worked so far, does anyone have any tips? Thanks so much!!
>
> -Tyler

You haven't stripped the newline before doing the comparison.  You also 
don't have to read the whole file just to compare a specific line.  I'll 
leave you to find out how :)

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Mark Lawrence

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