[Tutor] find pickle and retrieve saved data

Quiles, Stephanie stephanie.quiles001 at albright.edu
Mon Aug 3 14:13:29 CEST 2015


I'm trying to tell it to print everything under that particular name. I would have to def info, correct? But set it equal to what to make it work? 

Stephanie Quiles
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> On Aug 3, 2015, at 3:12 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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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