Newbie: searching a list

[Thomas Wagner]

try this instead

    sentence = ['Independent', 'Variable', '=', '11', ';']
    sentence[sentence.index('=') + 1]

(it is an error, if there is no '='-item)

Thomas

"user" <user at comm.mot.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> I have a list generated from a "sentence=split(some_file.readline())"
> statement.
>
> A sample list resulting from this statement is:
>     ['Independent', 'Variable', '=', '11', ';']
>
> I want to extract the '11', which is the next item in the list following
> the equals sign; I thought to get it this way:
>
> found=0
> IV=''
> for item in sentence:
>     if found:
>         IV=item
>         break
>     if item == "=":
>         found=1
>
> This works, but is it the best way to do it?
>
> -- Stephen
>