On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:43 PM, jim serson <fubarni...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I am getting an error when I try and run split and count I seem to get it to > work with one or the other but not together. python wants a character buffer > but I am not sure how to use it. > > I would also like to use readline to check and see if several numbers are in > the same line but I think I will need to use it in a loop maybe for? So it > would check for the first then check for the second if both are true add to > count but if ether are false continue to next line and repeat. > > If anyone can help me that would be grate. > Thanks > > look_in = "keno_back_up.txt"#raw_input ("Enter the search file to look in ") > search = raw_input ("Enter your search item ").split
Here search is actually a function because you left out the parentheses after split(). But with them, search would be a list. The argument to count() must be a string. > file = open(look_in, "r").read().count(search) > print "Your search came",file ,"times" Do you want a count per line or for the whole file? For the whole file you could do something like search_terms = raw_input ("Enter your search item ").split() # Note the final () data = open(look_in).read() count = 0 for term in search_terms: count += data.count(term) The last three lines could also be written as count = sum(data.count(term) for term in search_terms) Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor