[Tutor] String Attribute

[Alan Gauld]

On 30/07/15 23:51, ltc.hotspot at gmail.com wrote:

> fname = raw_input("Enter file name: ")
> if len(fname) < 1 : fname = "mbox-short.txt" # assign fname
> fh=open(fname,'r') # Open a new file handle
> for line in fh:
>      print line
>      if 'From' in line.split()[0] and '@' in line: sender = line.split()[2]

Note that you are overwriting sender each time through the loop.
Also [2] isa the third element, I think you want the second [1]

BTW Its probably clearer to write that last line as:

if line.startswith('From') and '@' in line:
     sender = line.split()[1]

Better still may be to split the line first:

sections = line.split()
if 'FROM' in sections[0].upper() and '@' in sections:
     sender = sections[1]

> print sender

And this is outside the loop so will only print the last item.
To print all of them you need to move the print inside the loop.

hth
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