[Tutor] bruteforce match word in text file

[David]

bob gailer wrote:
> David wrote:
>> bob gailer wrote:
>>> David wrote:
>>>> I have to ask for a pointer, not sure what I am doing wrong.
>>>
>>> The first thing you are doing "wrong" is failing to tell us what is 
>>> in the wordlist file and what results you get when you run the program.
>>>
>>> Please re-post with that information.
>>>>
>>>> #!/usr/bin/python
>>>> password = 'loser'
>>>> wordlist = '/home/david/Challenge-You/wordlist.txt'
>>>> try:
>>>>     words = open(wordlist, 'r').readlines()
>>>> except IOError, e:
>>>>     print "Sorry no words"
>>>> for word in words:
>>>>     word = word.replace("\n","")
>>>>     if password in word:
>>>>         print word
>>>>     else:
>>>>         print 'You are a loser'

> 
> Now what can you change to get it to do what (I assume) you want - 
> examine each "word" in the file, print the word if 'loser' is in it, and 
> print 'You are a loser' ONLY if no words match.
> 
Thanks Bob,
I changed the wordlist.txt to
next
block
is
meat
<snip>
and the program;

#!/usr/bin/python
import re
password = 'loser'
wordlist = '/home/david/Challenge-You/wordlist.txt'
try:
     words = open(wordlist, 'r').readlines()
except IOError, e:
     print "Sorry no words"
for word in words:
     word = word.replace("\n","")
     if password in word:
         print "The password is: ", word
     else:
         pass

I could not figure out how to split the file into words.


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