Alan Gauld wrote: >> Use the stripw() function we saw on individual words to make >> finding hits more accurate > > No idea what that means but since the assignment suggests > it we should assume its correct.
My crystal ball says def stripw(word): return word.strip('",.') or somesuch. > You have several bad habits in here... > > > def lines(name, word): > > 'print all lines of name in which word occurs' > > > > infile = open(name, 'r') > > lst = infile.readlines() > > infile.close() > > You could do that in one line: > > lst = open(name).readlines() Talking about bad habits -- what you are suggesting here is a step in the wrong direction. If at this point in the OP's Python career you bother about how to open and close a file at all you should recommend the safe variant with open(name) as infile: lines = infile.readlines() rather than the version for, err, us lazy old bastards ;) _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor