On 11/10/2013 15:23, Peter Otten wrote:
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 ;)
Why bother building a list when the modern idiom is simply
for line in infile: ?
--
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Most poems rhyme,
But this one doesn't.
Mark Lawrence
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