Chris Hengge wrote: > Tried your first suggestion. > AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'find'
Sorry, it's index() not find(). Strings have both but lists only have index() > > Perhaps a better explanation... > > > for word in paragraph: > if word in sentence: > print word + sentence > > Assume that the word is only used once per paragraph. Still not clear - the above looks like it would actually run. > > I can't figure out how to tell it to print the right sentence (using > this example) because python does the search internally and doesn't seem > to have a way to return the list location where the match occurred. There is only one sentence in the above example. I think you want index(). If not, maybe you could show a small sample of the data and the result you want. > > > On 10/18/06, *Kent Johnson* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > Chris Hengge wrote: > > Still no progress with this myself. > > > > For clarification if I didn't provide enough earlier, > > for item in list1: > > if item in list2: > > print item and list[object at location where matched > item] <-- > > need this location. > > I still don't understand your question. If you want the index in list2 > of the item that matches, use list2.find(item). > > If you want to enumerate over a list and have the list indices > available > as well as the list values, use enumerate() e.g. > for i, item in enumerate(list1): > # i is the index of item in list1 > > Kent > > > > > On 10/18/06, *Chris Hengge* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> wrote: > > > > I'm looking for a way to do the following. > > > > for item in limitedLineList: > > if item in directoryList: > > print match.ljust(20) + > limitedLineList[count].ljust(20) > > + directoryList[ count].ljust(20) > > else: > > print fail.ljust(20) + > limitedLineList[count].ljust(20) > > + directoryList[count].ljust(20) > > os.rename(pathName + directoryList[ count], > pathName + > > limitedLineList[count]) > > count = count + 1 > > > > Where I have underlined, needs to be the item from the > > directoryList, and I'm unable to find a way to return that. > > > > The code is actually doing what I want correctly, (cheated a > test by > > hand changing variables), but I need to find the directory > location. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org <mailto:Tutor@python.org> > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor> > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org <mailto:Tutor@python.org> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor> > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
