Hi all, New programmer here. This is what I want to do:
1. Open an existing text file named "grocery_list.txt", which has one item per line, like so: butter juice bread asparagus magazines ice cream 2. ...and search for these items in a pre-defined list. But I can't seem to get this working. Right now after trying the following: aisle_one = ["chips", "bread", "pretzels", "magazines"] grocery_list = open("grocery_list.txt", "r") for line in grocery_list.readlines(): if line in aisle_one: print "success" else: print "no joy" grocery_list.close() I get this: no joy no joy no joy no joy no joy no joy when I'm expecting this: no joy no joy success no joy success no joy Am I close? This seems like it should work but I'm obviously missing something. Thanks, Eric _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor