[Tutor] Location of found item in list.

[Chris Hengge]

What that should have said

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

On 10/18/06, Chris Hengge <pyro9219 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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