appending to beginning of line

[Anna]

On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 07:22:23 -0500, Bob wrote:

> I have this script:
> 
> # loop through the list and print the lines to a file for line in
> inFile.xreadlines():
>     for badword in kw:
>         if line.find(badword) > -1:
>             found = '%s %s' % (badword, line)
>             print found            # Print the result
>             outFile.write(found)   # Write the result
> 
> This will print the badword and then the line it is on. For those lines
> that do not contain a badword I want to place a hyphen "-".
> 
> Bob
 
Okay - I admit it. I'm a complete newbie. So, I'm probably looking at
this far too simplistically. Why couldn't you just add something like
the following?

>   for badword in kw: 
>	if line.find(...
>	      found = '... 
>             print found           # Print the result

	else:
	  print "-"					# no bad word so print a placeholder

>       outFile.write(found)   		# Write the result

This is a question, rather than a suggestion.

Please don't flame if I've missed something completely obvious to the
experienced folks here. Any simple explanations of why this is unworkable
would be welcome. Thank you.

Anna