[Tutor] Equality Check.

[Joel Goldstick]

On Mar 2, 2014 6:30 PM, "Mark Lawrence" <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 02/03/2014 21:10, Tyler Simko wrote:
>>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I'm embarrassingly new at Python, so please forgive my probably simple
mistakes.
>>
>> So I called readlines() on a file, and I'm wondering how I can check the
equality of a specific line with a raw_input set variable as a condition.
For example,
>>readlines result must be put somewhere
>> file = open('filename.txt,' 'r')
>> file.readlines()
>> variable_name = raw_input()
>> if file[2] == variable_name:
>>       #whatever
>>
>> This approach hasn't worked so far, does anyone have any tips? Thanks so
much!!
>>
>> -Tyler
>
>
> You haven't stripped the newline before doing the comparison.  You also
don't have to read the whole file just to compare a specific line.  I'll
leave you to find out how :)
>
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