[Tutor] Location of found item in list.

[Luke Paireepinart]

Chris Hengge wrote:
> 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.
Well,  yeah, but it won't go into the if statement if there isn't a 
match so what does that matter?
> 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
Did you try my example yet?
It should work just fine.
just iterate over both of the lists...
for item1 in List1:
    for item2 in List2:
       if item1 == item2: #this is equivalent to 'if item1 in List2' 
except will match ALL occurrences of item1 in List2.  if you want to 
only match the first, add a break.
          print item1+ ' ' + item2