In <2f08e970-1334-4e7f-ba84-14869708a...@googlegroups.com> Leonardo Petry
<leonardo.petry...@gmail.com> writes:
> fin = open('wordplay.txt');
> user_input = raw_input('Enter some characters: ')
> count = 0
> for line in fin:
> word = line.strip()
> if(avoids(word, user_input)):
> count += 1;
> This is just too convenient.
> Basically my question is: Why is python not treating the contents of
> wordplay.txt as one long string and looping each character?
> Any comment is greatly appreciate. Thanks
Your code is not treating the contents of wordplay.txt as one long string
because 'for line in fin:' tells it to read line-by-line.
If you want to read the entire contents, use the read() method:
file_content = fin.read()
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