Sorry Jonas, I don't understand what you are trying to do at all. The subject line and your code snippets don't seem to match up.
> Subject: [Tutor] iterating in the same line >I would check 3 words at the starting of a line > > s=['foo','bar','qwe'] > > if ln.startswith(s): (this is bad) Why is it bad -- other than it doesn't work! I think you mean something like for st in s: if line.startswith(st): do something > if max(map(ln.startswith,s)): But this does something completely different! This selects the 'biggest' line that starts with anything in s. then if the biggest line is not null does something? > reduce(lambda m,n:m or n, map(ln.startswith, s)) And this does something different again. It uses map to create a list containg ln if ln startswith one of the strings in s, then tries to reduce that list to one element(which it already is!) by 'or'ing the elements. I can't even begin to guess from that what it is you are actually trying to do. Can you give us more explanation and maybe some sample data? Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
