On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:01:25 -0400, Ben Keshet wrote: > somehow. I use 'while 'word' not in line' to recognize words in the > texts. Sometimes, the files are empty, so while doesn't find 'word' and > runs forever. I have two questions: > 1) how do I overcome this, and make the script skip the empty files? > (should I use another command?) > 2) how do I interrupt the code without closing Python? (I have ActivePython)
Try the docs first. You need to read about 'continue' and 'break' statements: http://docs.python.org/tut/node6.html HTH. -- Regards, Wojtek Walczak, http://tosh.pl/gminick/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
