BTW my program isn't about red blue yellow etc. I'm just using it as an example. I guess i didn't asked the question correctly or am not expressing myself correctly. Let me try one more.
Ok. Contents of text file follow: red blue purble yellow blue green Now lets imagine i wrote some code to look for the word red. Once the program has found red i want it to print something like the following line. If you add red and blue you obtain the color purple... How do i turn each color in the line into a separate string? Now is that possible? placid wrote: > BartlebyScrivener wrote: > > Saint Malo wrote: > > > If the program searches for blue, i just want it to print blue > > > > Huh? Tell it to print whatever you want. > > > > for line in file: > > if 'blue' in line: > > print 'blue' > > > > for line in file: > > if 'brown' in line: > > print 'brown' > > > > for line in file: > > if 'red' in line: > > print 'weasels rip my flesh' > > wow Dude, this is not efficient at all! You only need to read the file > once not as many times as there are words in your looking for in the > lines of the file -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
