Nested loop not working
Ian Kelly
ian.g.kelly at gmail.com
Fri Jul 16 10:56:46 EDT 2010
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Johann Spies <johann.spies at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am overlooking something stupid.
>
> I have two files: one with keywords and another with data (one record per line).
>
> I want to determine for each keyword which lines in the second file
> contains that keyword.
>
> The following code is not working. It loops through the second file
> but only uses the first keyword in the first file.
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>
> import re
>
> keywords = open("sleutelwoorde",'r')
> data = open("sarua_marine_sleutelwoorde.csv",'r')
>
> remove_quotes = re.compile('"')
>
>
> for sw in keywords:
> for r in data:
> swc = remove_quotes('',sw)[:-1]
> if swc in r.lower():
> print swc + ' ---> ' + r
> print swc
>
> What am I missing?
Not sure about the loop, but this line looks incorrect:
swc = remove_quotes('',sw)[:-1]
I don't think a compiled regular expression object is callable; you
have to call one of its methods.
HTH,
Ian
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