On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Frank Millman <fr...@chagford.com> wrote: > Are you saying that > > all([len(word) == 23 for word in words_by_length[23]]) # hope I got > that right > > will not return True?
That'll return true. What it won't show, though, is the length of the word as you would understand it in the English language. You see, when you iterate over a file, you get strings that include a newline at the end, and that'll be included in the length :) So with a dictionary of English words, you'll see that "cat\n" is a four-letter word, and "python\n" is a seven-letter word. It's a subtle point, but an important one when you start looking at lengths of things that are suddenly off by one. Obviously the solution is to strip them, but I didn't want to pollute the example with that (nor a 'with' block). I didn't think it particularly important, and just acknowledged the bug in what I thought was a throw-away line :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
