[Tutor] Location of found item in list.

[Chris Hengge]

Ok the example I gave here wasn't written as I had it in my head.. you are
right, the example only had 1 sentence.

Inputs:
List1 ['a.exe','b.exe',c.exe']
List2 ['A.exe',B.eXe',c.EXE']

for item in List1:
     if item in List2:
           print item + " " + list2thing that matched.

I can't force to upper or lower, that would break the already working code..


Its just this darn output for list2 that isn't working.

I tried the suggested list.index(item) but that wont work if there isn't a
match.
Right now my code works when there is a match, and if there isnt'...
It also works for renaming the actual file to match the file call from the
document.

I'm about to take the display out, since I dont honestly care that it works,
but now that I've been working with it I'm being stubborn and want the darn
thing to show me =P

On 10/18/06, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:
>
> Chris Hengge wrote:
> > Tried your first suggestion.
> > AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'find'
>
> Sorry, it's index() not find(). Strings have both but lists only have
> index()
> >
> > 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.
>
> Still not clear - the above looks like it would actually run.
> >
> > 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.
>
> There is only one sentence in the above example.
>
> I think you want index(). If not, maybe you could show a small sample of
> the data and the result you want.
> >
> >
> > On 10/18/06, *Kent Johnson* <kent37 at tds.net <mailto: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>
> >      > <mailto: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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