Problem with list.insert

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:13:00 -0700, SUBHABRATA wrote:

> import re
> def wordchecker1(n):
>     # INPUTTING STRING
>     a1=raw_input("PRINT ONE ENGLISH SENTENCE FOR DICTIONARY CHECK:")
>     #CONVERTING TO LOWER CASE
>     a2=a1.lower()
>     #CONVERTING INTO LIST
>     a3=a2.split()
>     #DICTIONARY
>     a4=open("/python25/Changedict3.txt","r") a5=a4.read()
>     a6=a5.split()
>     found=[]
>     not_found=[]
>    #SEARCHING DICTIONARY
>     for x in a3:
>         a7="\n"
>         a8=a7+x
>         if a8 in a5:
>             a9=a5.index(a8)
>             a10=a5[a9:]
>             a11=re.search("\xe0.*?\n",a10)
>             a12=a11.group()
>             a13=a12[:-1]
>             found.append(a13)
>         elif a8 not in a5:
>             a14=x
>             not_found.append(a14)
>         else:
>             print "Error"
>     found.extend(not_found)
>     # THE OUTPUT
>     print "OUTPUT STRING IS"
>     a15=(' '.join(found))
>     #THE OUTPUT STRING
>     print a15
>     # SPLITTING OUTPUT STRING IN WORDS
>     a16=a15.split()
>     #TAKING OUT THE WORD FROM OUTPUT STRING for word in a16:
>         #MATCHING WITH GIVEN STRING
>         a17=a2.find(word)
>         if a17>-1:
>             print "The word is found in the Source String"
>             a18=a3.index(word)
>             a19=a3[a18]
>             print a19
>             #INSERTING IN THE LIST OF TARGET STRING
>             a20=a16.insert(a18,a19)
>             print a16
>             a21=(" ".join(a16))
>             print a21

a1, a2, a2, …, a20?  You must be kidding.  Please stop numbering names 
and use *meaningful* names instead!

Could you describe them problem better, with sample inputs and expected 
outputs.  There must be a better way that that unreadable mess above.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch