> Python Programmer" and have been trying to write a script that checks > 'words.txt' for parameters (letters) given. The problem that is the i > can only get results for the exact sequence of parameter 'letters'.
The "re" module comes to mind: text = open('words.txt','r').read() letters = 'sequence' results = re.findall(letters,text) result_count = len(results) # one word per line: for result in results : print result # one line print ' '.join(results) of course, you may need to invest a little time in regular expression syntax to get exactly what you want, but I think you'll find that's not wasted effort, as this is pretty standard and used in a lot of other places. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list