New to Python.

[droog]

Thanks Roy!

Could you please show me an alternative and better way of doing it?
tia

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:22:41 -0500, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:

>In article <h84i501homhvjv6a4ohmf0o4svlakcqtoa at 4ax.com>,
> droog <droog at orange.gov> wrote:
>
>> I was looking for the simpliest way of doing it. This is what I tried
>> to do. 
>> 
>> f = open('C:\Python23\Samples\Bob.txt', 'r')
>> counter = 0
>> while True:
>> 	line = f.readline()
>> 	if len(line) == 0:
>> 		break
>> 	if line.find('customer'):
>> 		counter = counter + 1
>> 		print 'Found it ' + str(counter)
>
>I cut-and-pasted the above onto my machine (just changed the pathname to 
>/usr/share/dict/words).  It finds every line in the file!  The problem 
>appears to be that the find() method returns -1 when there's no match, 
>which tests as True.  Other than that, the code seems pretty reasonable.