[Tutor] bruteforce match word in text file

[bob gailer]

David wrote:
>
> Thanks Bob,
> I changed the wordlist.txt to
> next
> block
> is
> meat
> <snip>
> and the program;
>
> #!/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 "The password is: ", word
>     else:
>         pass

Good work!
>
> I could not figure out how to split the file into words.

look up the string method split.

Also take a look at the syntax of the for statement and notice it has an 
else clause.

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Bob Gailer
Chapel Hill NC
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