I am still struggling with this one. Here is my code to retrieve data from emails.dat file
def main(): found = False search = input("Enter a name in the file for info: ") infile = open("emails.dat", "r") name = infile.readline() while name != '': email1, email2, phone, phone2 = (infile.readline()) name = name.rstrip("\n") if name == search: print("name: ", name) print("Email1, alternate email, phone, alternate phone", email1, email2, phone, phone2) print() found = True name = infile.readline() infile.close() if not found: print("That name is not found in file.") main() This is the error i am getting: enter a name in the file for info: sarah Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/stephaniequiles/Downloads/findemails.py", line 28, in <module> main() File "/Users/stephaniequiles/Downloads/findemails.py", line 9, in main name = infile.readline() File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/codecs.py", line 319, in decode (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 0: invalid start byte Process finished with exit code 1 > On Aug 3, 2015, at 8:13 AM, Quiles, Stephanie > <stephanie.quiles...@albright.edu> wrote: > > I'm trying to tell it to print everything under that particular name. I would > have to def info, correct? But set it equal to what to make it work? > > Stephanie Quiles > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Aug 3, 2015, at 3:12 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote: >> >>> On 03/08/15 04:04, Quiles, Stephanie wrote: >>> >>> def main(): >> ... >>> name_search = input("Enter a name in the file for info: ") >>> >>> for name in emails: >>> if name[0] == name_search: >>> print("This is the info: ", info) >> >> What is info? Is it supposed to be name? or name[1:]? >> Its not set anywhere in your code. >> >>> return emails >> >> Notice the return is outside the if block. >> So you always return on the first element of the for loop. >> >>> else: >>> print("Entry not Found! Try again.") >> >> -- >> Alan G >> Author of the Learn to Program web site >> http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ >> http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld >> Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor