On 12/10/13 06:18, Jackie Canales wrote:
for line in lst.splitlines():
if word in line:
words = line
Notice that you are overwriting words each time you get a match.
So the final value of words at the end of the for loop will just be the
last line found. All earlier lines will have been lost.
However, as Dave points out, this is the wrong approach to the
assignment. You should be getting all the words not just lines that
contain the word because the context(=/- 5 words) might span lines into
lines that do not of themselves contain your word. So this approach
throws away words which you may need.
for index, word in enumerate(words):
print(words)
The obvious error of using words instead of word has already been
pointed out. But since we've seen a few errors in your use of for loops
can I just check you are clear on how Python for loops work?
If you have used other languages they are like a foreach loop.
They do not use indexing they return each item in a sequence
until the sequence ends. This is much easier than the for loops in
languages like C, Pascal, Java, Basic etc. enumerate() gives you access
to indexes on the relatively few occasions you need that extra information.
HTH
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Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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