Hi Everyone:
I have a second and unrelated question: I tried to work backward to see if there is a logic error associated with a variable is being skipped over: #top of code, initialize variable output_list = ["default"] #rest of code If you get at the end print output_list ['default'] Raw Data File: count = 0 fname = raw_input("Enter file name: ") if len(fname) < 1 : fname = "mbox-short.txt" for line in fname: line = line.strip() if not line.startswith('From '): continue line = line.split() count = count + 1 print len(line) fh = open(fname) print "There were", count, "lines in the file with From as the first word" Sample data file at http://www.pythonlearn.com/code/mbox-short.txt Desired Output: stephen.marqu...@uct.ac.za lo...@media.berkeley.edu zq...@umich.edu rjl...@iupui.edu zq...@umich.edu rjl...@iupui.edu Thanks, Hal Sent from Surface From: Phu Sam Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 1:06 PM To: Ltc Hotspot _______________________________________________ Baypiggies mailing list baypigg...@python.org To change your subscription options or unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/baypiggies _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor