[Tutor] Location of found item in list.

[Chris Hengge]

Tried your first suggestion.
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'find'

Perhaps a better explanation...


for word in paragraph:
     if word in sentence:
          print word + sentence

Assume that the word is only used once per paragraph.

I can't figure out how to tell it to print the right sentence (using this
example) because python does the search internally and doesn't seem to have
a way to return the list location where the match occurred.


On 10/18/06, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:
>
> Chris Hengge 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.
>
> I still don't understand your question. If you want the index in list2
> of the item that matches, use list2.find(item).
>
> If you want to enumerate over a list and have the list indices available
> as well as the list values, use enumerate() e.g.
> for i, item in enumerate(list1):
>    # i is the index of item in list1
>
> Kent
>
> >
> > On 10/18/06, *Chris Hengge* <pyro9219 at gmail.com
> > <mailto: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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