[Tutor] Location of found item in list.

[Chris Hengge]

Still no progress with this myself.

For clarification if I didn't provide enough earlier,
for item in list1:
    if item in list2:
         print item and list[object at location where matched item] <-- need
this location.

On 10/18/06, Chris Hengge <pyro9219 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a way to do the following.
>
> for item in limitedLineList:
>         if item in directoryList:
>             print match.ljust(20) + limitedLineList[count].ljust(20) +
> directoryList[ count].ljust(20)
>         else:
>             print fail.ljust(20) + limitedLineList[count].ljust(20) +
> directoryList[count].ljust(20)
>             os.rename(pathName + directoryList[ count], pathName +
> limitedLineList[count])
>         count = count + 1
>
> Where I have underlined, needs to be the item from the directoryList, and
> I'm unable to find a way to return that.
>
> The code is actually doing what I want correctly, (cheated a test by hand
> changing variables), but I need to find the directory location.
>
> Thanks.
>
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