On 29Jul2015 21:55, ltc.hots...@gmail.com <ltc.hots...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a second and unrelated question:
I tried to work backward to see if there is a logic error associated with a
variable is being skipped over:
#top of code, initialize variable
output_list = ["default"]
Curious: why not just make this an empty list: []
[...snip...]
count = 0
fname = raw_input("Enter file name: ")
if len(fname) < 1 : fname = "mbox-short.txt"
for line in fname:
line = line.strip()
if not line.startswith('From '): continue
line = line.split()
count = count + 1
print len(line)
fh = open(fname)
print "There were", count, "lines in the file with From as the first word"
[...snip...]
My first observation would be that "count = count + 1" is not inside the loop.
That means that it fires just once, _after_ the loop. So it will always be 1.
Also, what is the purpose of this line:
line = line.split()
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
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