"zannah marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> rikart pointed out that you need to use a range to get to the
> indicies of
> the items in the string.
>
> for item in range(len(string))...
> if word1[item] == word2[item]
>
There is another way which is to use enumerate which
returns both the item and its index.
>>> for i,c in enumerate('abcd'):
>>> print c, 'at', i
a at 0
b at 1
c at 2
d at 3
But range() works just as well in this case.
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