[Tutor] Looking for Words - Help

[Peter Otten]

Alan Gauld wrote:

>> Use the stripw() function we saw on individual words to make
>> finding hits more accurate
> 
> No idea what that means but since the assignment suggests
> it we should assume its correct.

My crystal ball says

def stripw(word):
    return word.strip('",.')

or somesuch.

> You have several bad habits in here...
> 
> > def lines(name, word):
> >      'print all lines of name in which word occurs'
> >
> >      infile = open(name, 'r')
> >      lst = infile.readlines()
> >      infile.close()
> 
> You could do that in one line:
> 
>         lst = open(name).readlines()

Talking about bad habits -- what you are suggesting here is a step in the 
wrong direction.

If at this point in the OP's Python career you bother about how to open and 
close a file at all you should recommend the safe variant

with open(name) as infile:
    lines = infile.readlines()

rather than the version for, err, us lazy old bastards ;)