[Tutor] Read from large text file, parse, find string, print string + line number to second text file.

Mitya Sirenef msirenef at lightbird.net
Sat Feb 2 05:54:34 CET 2013


On 02/01/2013 11:31 PM, Scurvy Scott wrote:
>
 > Steve-
 > thanks a lot for showing me the if __name__ = main part
 > I've often wondered how it was used and it didn't make sense until I
 > saw it in my own code if that makes any sense.
 > Also appreciate the help on the "instructional" side of things.
 >
 > One question related to the instruction aspect- does this make sense 
to you?
 >
 > If len(sys.argv) == 0:
 > print "usage: etc etc etc"


If should not be capitalized; sys.argv always has the name
of the script as the first item.

So you need to do something like:

if len(sys.argv) != 3:
     print "usage: ..."

HTH!  -m


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