Newbie Question

[Scott David Daniels]

placid wrote:
> Saint Malo wrote:
>> Andrew Robert wrote:
>>> Saint Malo wrote:
>>> # Open a file for read
>>> file=open(r'test.txt','r')
>>>
>>> # Read each line in file
>>> for line in file
>>>
>>>    #Search each line
>>>    if "A" in line:
>>>
>>>         print "I found A"
>>>
>>> file.close()
> 

Here's a bit nobody has suggested yet:
A) use sets of words for easier checking.
     ...
     search_words = set(["red", "brown"])
     for line in file:
         words = set(line.split())
         if words & search_words:
             for word in search_words:
                 if word in words:
                     if word == 'red':
                         print 'weasels rip my flesh'
                     else:
                         print word
     ...

--Scott David Daniels
scott.daniels at acm.org