[Tutor] Location of found item in list.

[Chris Hengge]

The point of this script is to read a text file that has a bunch of code
that calls external files. Then read the directory where all the files are..
I build a list from the text file (this works correct), and I build a list
from the directory (this works correct). I want to print out the result of a
match..

Here is sample output.
Tested:      Textname:       DirectoryName:
Match!         a.exe             a.exe
Fail!             A.exe            a.exe

My program works, it will find where they match and where they dont, but I
can't get the darn thing to output the correct item to the 3rd column
because:
if item in list:

does not return the list location, so I can't write it out to the screen.

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