[Tutor] find pickle and retrieve saved data

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Mon Aug 3 09:11:45 CEST 2015


On 03/08/15 04:04, Quiles, Stephanie wrote:

> def main():
...
>      name_search = input("Enter a name in the file for info: ")
>
>      for name in emails:
>          if name[0] == name_search:
>              print("This is the info: ", info)

What is info? Is it supposed to be name? or name[1:]?
Its not set anywhere in your code.

>          return emails

Notice the return is outside the if block.
So you always return on the first element of the for loop.

>      else:
>          print("Entry not Found! Try again.")

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