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Find a word in a file

Feb 19th, 2007

I want to see if a certain word is in a text file, how do I go about that?

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Re: Find a word in a file

Feb 19th, 2007

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Originally Posted by sneekula

I want to see if a certain word is in a text file, how do I go about that?

you can read in line by line

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for line in open("file"):
   if "word" in line:
      do_something(line)
for line in open("file"):
   if "word" in line:
      do_something(line)

you can read in one whole chunk

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data = open("file").read()
if "someword" in data:
    do_something()
data = open("file").read()
if "someword" in data:
    do_something()

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Re: Find a word in a file

Feb 20th, 2007

Holy smokes, ghostdog, you make it look real simple! Looks like Python really has the power of simplicity and elegance! Besides, I can actually understand the code as I read it!

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