On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 08:40 am, CM wrote: > So what's going on here? Why isn't a string with the content 'match' equal > to another string with the content 'match'?
You don't know that the content is 'match'. All you know is that when printed, it *looks like* 'match'. Hint: s = 'match ' print 'match', s # they look the same print 'match' == s # but they aren't the same Start by printing repr(candidate_text) and see what you really have. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
