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[LolaT]

There's really no need to make a list for a string in order to test membership of a string:[CODE=python]
>>> myDict = "this\nis\nsome \ntext\nwith\no ne\nword\nper\n line"
>>> print myDict
this
is
some
text
with
one
word
per
line
>>> "text" in myDict
True
>>> [/CODE]

I'm trying to check if the words are in a file though...
does it still not matter then?

[ilikepython]

There's really no need to make a list for a string in order to test membership of a string:[CODE=python]
>>> myDict = "this\nis\nsome \ntext\nwith\no ne\nword\nper\n line"
>>> print myDict
this
is
some
text
with
one
word
per
line
>>> "text" in myDict
True
>>> [/CODE]

That was the O/P's orignal problem, that the word can match other words:
[code=python]
>>> myDict = "this\nis\nsome \ntextile\nwith \none\nword\npe r\nline"
>>> print myDict
this
is
some
textile # not "text"
with
one
word
per
line
>>> "text" in myDict # wrong
True
[/code]

[T00l]

Hi

Can anyone tell me how to use the first bit of code (below) in this post to not print but to count the number of a words in the dict file and then use that number to define a true or false statement ie..
>>> if word in dict.txt >50 = True


>>> f=open("dict.tx t","r")
>>> word='zygote'
>>> for line in f:
if word in line:
print "Your word is in the dictionary"

[ilikepython]

I've encountered yet another problem. I'm trying to get my program to check the dictionary, and then if it isn't in the dictionary, the user dictionary is checked for the word, however my code won't work.


[code=python]word=str(raw_in put("Enter a word: "))
words=[line[:-1] for line in f]

if word in words:
print "The word '%s' is in the dictionary." %word
print

elif word not in words:
words2=[line[:-1] for line in userDict]
if word in words2:
print "The word '%s' is in the User dictionary." %word[/code]


I figured it would work putting it this way, but instead it just jumps back to the menu, because I've looped it so that unless the user chooses option 4 (which in my code is the exit option) it'll continue the program.

I'm sure the answer is relatively simple, yet I have no clue what I'm doing...
if anyone knows of any books or websites that may help me use Python I'd be really thankful. I tried out the Python documentation as well, but I'm not getting any answers.

How is the userDict formatted, is it a file?

[Thekid]

I tried this using 2 text files with different words in each file. If the word can be found in one or the other, it will print out which one the word was found in. If the word isn't found, it will print that out as well:

f = open ("words.txt")
g = open ("dictionary.txt")
word = raw_input("Please enter your word:")
words = [line[:-1] for line in f]
words2 = [line[:-1] for line in g]
if word in words:
            print " %s can be found in the dictionary " % word
if word in words2:
            print " %s can be found in the user dictionary" % word
if word not in words + words2:
           print "Your word was not found. Please try again"