On Nov 29, 2:53 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I dont understand why the following code cannot find the
> variable "tree". It is very simple but I could not find the answer
> to this on the Python Tutorials. Here is the code, input and runtime:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> fname = open("test43.in")
> var = 'tree'
>
> for item in fname:
> print "item: ", item,
The repr() built-in function is your friend. Having trouble with "item
== var"? Do this:
print repr(var), repr(item)
and you'll see immediately why item != var
> if item == var:
> print "found tree: ", item,
HTH,
John
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