Aahz wrote:
In article <mailman.9538.1234633556.3487.python-l...@python.org>,
Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
for line in open('char.txt'):
if line.find('sweet') != -1 or line.find('blue') != -1:
print(line)
For any recent Python, this should be:
if 'sweet' in line or 'blue' in line:
Although I think that for the OP's use case, it ought to be:
if line.startswith('sweet=') or line.startswith('blue=')
Or:
if line.startswith(('sweet=', 'blue=')):
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