Thanks, this helps a lot. I'm ever so slowly learning to actually like working with python, and every little stupid question answered is a step in that direction.

I should have posted this a long time ago, but anyway:
Thanks for the help, this cleared up a lot.

I'm trying to get to grips with using files, particurlarly saving a set of inputs from the user into a file and then load it all back up again.
I have a program which, through a little object...

Ah, sub-christ, that hurt. Well, I'm learning, I'm learning. Thanks!

Right, so with your assistance I've managed to get the program I'm working on functional. Just one little detail, which is...

Haha, great forum - write a dumb question, wait an hour, get a good answer. That seems to be what I'm after, but of course I always have a few more dumb questions.

So if I write the whole program...

I've gotten a little bit furter in understanding the general workings of python, and currently I'm fidgeting with classes and objects. I was thinking of the possibilities of having a program with a...

Here I go with yet another of my don't-get-the-syntax-problems. For some reason I tend to get a lot more from putting a question here than reading through a few dozen pages of documentation, which I...

Well, I got something working, looks like this:

word = input("Enter word to look up: ")
selection = [item for item in tuplelist if item[0] == word]
if selection:
a...

It would, this is just a matter of me wanting to understand this completely; the way I see it, you don't get good at things by ignoring the parts you don't grasp immediately.

Still, though, there...

Thanks for the quick reply, now at least I understand that much more. Just one more of those staring-at-semantics-error-not-getting-what-the-syntax-wants-problems:

As far as I understand, the...

The comments are running willy-nilly, but at least in the pre-view mode it helps to click "Toggle Plain Text".

if wish == 1: #Menu option
word =...

Yea, I realise using lists for this purpose isn't exactly the optimal way of going about it, but it was part of a task a while back and it just got me thinking in those tracks... how does this work,...

A real simple one, just a question of understanding the python syntax I suppose. I won't waste your time by throwing the whole program at you, I think my question can be boiled down to this:


a =...