On 7/14/2010 8:46 AM Eric Hamiter said...
Hi all,
New programmer here. This is what I want to do:
1. Open an existing text file named "grocery_list.txt", which has one
item per line, like so:
butter
juice
bread
asparagus
magazines
ice cream
2. ...and search for these items in a pre-defined list.
But I can't seem to get this working. Right now after trying the following:
aisle_one = ["chips", "bread", "pretzels", "magazines"]
grocery_list = open("grocery_list.txt", "r")
for line in grocery_list.readlines():
if line in aisle_one:
So it's failing this test.
print "success"
else:
print "no joy"
Try adding some debugging code here, maybe changing the print to:
print "no joy matching %s" % line
Then read up on readlines and string.strip.
HTH,
Emile
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