[Tutor] searching for multiple strings in line.starswith()

[Joel Goldstick]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Luke Paireepinart
<rabidpoobear at gmail.com>wrote:

> You are using Line.startswith incorrectly, read the docs on it and see if
> you can figure out your problem an key us know. Pay attention to the
> parameters it takes and the values it returns.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 19, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Bala subramanian <bala.biophysics at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Friends,
> > I have to extract the line from a file that does not contain a set of
> strings in the start of the line, i wrote the following code.
> >
> > for index, line in enumerate(myvar.split('\n')):
> >     if line.startswith('') not in ['#Cluster','#Centroid','#End']:
> >         line=line.split()
> >         print line
> >
> > The code works without error but it seems that the condition is not
> applied. What is the correct way of searching for multiple strings at the
> start of a line.
> >
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I recently used this code:

split_line = line.split(' ', 1)

which takes the text from the start up to the first space.

then something like:

if split_line not in [...etc....]
    print split_line
    # or if you want the original line print line





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Joel Goldstick
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