Thanks guys, Those have helped. Now a new issue comes up. The list 'palindrome' is not being populated. I know that there is a few in the list. I think this is in the compareElements def. While I'm familiar with the .append() call I don't know why it's not populating the palindrome list.
Thanks again for all the assistance. CODE: def getFile(): fname = raw_input('Enter location and filename: ') print #attempt the open the file for reading try: fobj = open(fname, 'r') except IOError, e: print "*** file open error:", e else: #display contents to the screen for eachLine in fobj: # create list here eachLine.strip().split() wordList.append(eachLine) fobj.close() def compareElements(wordList): for item in wordList: if item == item[::-1]: #wordList[item] == wordList[item].reverse(): print item palindromes.append(item) wordList = [] palindromes = [] getFile() print "\nPrinting new Word list!!!" print wordList[:] print "\nComparing Word List!!!" compareElements(wordList) print "\nPrinting palindromes" print palindromes[:] print "\nDone!!!" On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Dave Angel <d...@davea.name> wrote: > On 06/08/2012 09:01 PM, Marc Tompkins wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Mike Nickey <mnic...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> def compareElements(wordList): >>> for item in wordList(): >>> if item == item.reversed(): >>> print item >>> else: >>> next(item) >>> >>> >> reversed() is not a string method. To reverse a string, try something like >> this: >> >>> if item == item[::-1] >>> >> > > > Also next(item) is useless and probably an error. You do not need an > else clause there. the for loop takes care of those details. > > > > -- > > DaveA > -- ~MEN _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor